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LARRY DEAN SMITH
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 14, 1938 – March 20, 1969
Service recordLarry Dean Smith, of Ringgold, Georgia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 93
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- September 14, 1938
- Home of record
- Ringgold, Georgia (Catoosa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1969
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 29W, Line 93
- FILEMON SERRANOPrivate First Class · March 20, 1969
- CLARENCE ELVIN SMITHSpecialist Four · March 20, 1969
- DENNIS ALLEN SMITHCorporal · March 20, 1969
- KARL JOSEPH TASCHEK JRSpecialist Four · March 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TERRY TERUO KAWAMURACorporal · Panel 29W, Line 90
From Ringgold
- DON JUNE RICHARDSPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- MICHAEL LEE DOTSONPrivate First Class · May 29, 1967
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.