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LARRY DEAN HESSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 16, 1947 – March 3, 1967
Service recordLarry Dean Hesson, of Gallatin, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 11
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- September 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Gallatin, Tennessee (Sumner County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 11
- JOHN HENRY JOHNSON JRPrivate · March 3, 1967
- EDWIN JONESPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- EUGENE LOUIS LAVOY JRPrivate · March 3, 1967
- DAVID C PAPESHPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE MIKESELLPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 12
- MICHAEL RAYMOND PADILLASergeant · Panel 16E, Line 12
- PAUL WILLIAM RILEYSergeant First Class · Panel 16E, Line 13
From Gallatin
- JOHN ROBERT PETTY JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 26, 1965
- NELSON MONTAGUE ONEALCorporal · January 8, 1968
- PHILIP MARVIN CREWSSergeant · March 3, 1968
- DONALD LEE TEMPLETONCaptain · September 21, 1968
- GLENN STANFORD MILLERPrivate First Class · October 16, 1968
- ERIC THOMAS DUFFERPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
- RALPH DAVID MCMURTRYSpecialist Four · April 13, 1969
- ROBERT LEE TRISDALESergeant First Class · April 26, 1969
- OLLIE EDWARD CRENSHAW JRSpecialist Four · March 29, 1972
- RONALD DWIGHT PERRYCaptain · December 20, 1972
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.