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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Dexter Carlisle.

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LARRY DEXTER CARLISLE

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

July 27, 1946 – June 11, 1968

Service record

Larry Dexter Carlisle, of Miami, Florida, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 58W · Line 22

Position of Panel 58W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 27, 1946
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 58W, Line 22

From Miami

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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.