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LARRY DEWAYNE LEAMON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 28, 1950 – March 22, 1971
Service recordLarry Dewayne Leamon, of Harrison, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 67
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 28, 1950
- Home of record
- Harrison, Tennessee (Hamilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1971; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 67
- MICHAEL LEO HARRISSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
- DAVID ROY HAYWARDSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
- DONALD PAUL KNUTSENSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
- JEROME EDWARD LEROYSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
Same unit, same day
- TERRY WAYNE DOANSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 65
- REGINALD DAVID CLEVEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4W, Line 66
- WALTER RAY HALLSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 66
- DONALD PAUL KNUTSENSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 67
- JEROME EDWARD LEROYSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 67
- JOHN GROVE TRAVER IIIWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4W, Line 69
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.