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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry E Whitington.

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LARRY E WHITINGTON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 15, 1942 – August 20, 1966

Service record

Larry E Whitington, of Fairmount, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10E · Line 23

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 15, 1942
Home of record
Fairmount, Illinois (Vermilion County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 20, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

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17 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 10E, Line 23

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.