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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Dwight Maggard.

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LARRY DWIGHT MAGGARD

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 20, 1946 – June 5, 1968

Service record

Larry Dwight Maggard, of Isom, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 5, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 60W · Line 19

Position of Panel 60W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
HHD 89 MP GRP 18 MP BDE
Born
January 20, 1946
Home of record
Isom, Kentucky (Letcher County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 5, 1968
Age
22
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

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53 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Isom

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.