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LARRY DEAN SAIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 13, 1948 – March 18, 1968
Service recordLarry Dean Sain, of Cherryville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 29
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Cherryville, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 29
- ALFRED ROBERT SAPINOSASpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
- MARSHALL GUST SCHAFFNERPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES SEAMAN JRPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- JIMMY L SHERRILLSecond Lieutenant · March 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL DAVID CARROLLPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 18
- PAUL ALLAN CONNERPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 19
- MONTE RAY COOLEYCorporal · Panel 45E, Line 19
- CECIL LEROY DAVISSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 19
- ROY LEE ESTRADASergeant · Panel 45E, Line 20
- LARRY VERNARD GREENPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 22
- WALTER ALEXANDER WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 23
- STEVEN LOUIS MESSERLISpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 25
- DENNIS FRANCIS MOORESpecialist Five · Panel 45E, Line 26
- JIMMY L SHERRILLSecond Lieutenant · Panel 45E, Line 29
- THOMAS LLOYD SMITHSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 30
From Cherryville
- LARRY KEITH HEAVNERLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- WARREN DANE CAMPBELLStaff Sergeant · October 23, 1967
- BOBBY DEAN ANTHONYPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- FRANKLIN EARL WRIGHTPetty Officer Second Class · November 10, 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.