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LARRY DAVIS HATCHER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 12, 1946 – April 11, 1968
Service recordLarry Davis Hatcher, of Martinsville, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Martinsville, Virginia (Martinsville (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 22
- EUGENE RICHARD GANNONCaptain · April 11, 1968
- FREDERICK DUNHAM GRATENCorporal · April 11, 1968
- TIMOTHY HENDERSONSergeant · April 11, 1968
- JOHN ANDREW HOGGATTPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KEITH NOEL ATCHLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 19
From Martinsville
- LOUIS ALLEN JEFFERSONPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- JOHNNY MICHAEL HAIRSTONPrivate First Class · November 23, 1966
- SAMUEL EARNEST WITCHERSergeant · July 4, 1967
- ALPHONSO S MARTINSergeant · February 1, 1968
- MORRIS ALFRED WHITEHEADSergeant · February 24, 1968
- LONNIE DOUGLAS ALLEYSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- ROBERT VERNON HOLLANDLance Corporal · June 4, 1968
- LEWIS RANDOLPH LOVELL JRSpecialist Four · June 6, 1968
- HARRY PEMBERTON MARTINPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
- CLOVIS BERNARD WALKERCorporal · June 30, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.