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LARRY E WORKMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 28, 1943 – March 25, 1968
Service recordLarry E Workman, of Pierceton, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 26
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- September 28, 1943
- Home of record
- Pierceton, Indiana (Kosciusko County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 26
- GARY RAY WIGINTONPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- JIM LAMARR AILSTOCK JRSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- LONNIE DOUGLAS ALLEYSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- FRANKIE EUGENE ALLGOODLieutenant Colonel · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD JOSEPH JUREK IISpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 19
From Pierceton
- ERNIE LEE WALLENPrivate First Class · August 30, 1969
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.