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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Dean Wells.

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LARRY DEAN WELLS

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

December 15, 1946 – January 13, 1968

Service record

Larry Dean Wells, of Wray, Colorado, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 13, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 34E · Line 46

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
December 15, 1946
Home of record
Wray, Colorado (Yuma County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 13, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

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35 names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 34E, Line 46

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.