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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Earl McClung.

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LARRY EARL MCCLUNG

Seaman · U.S. Navy

August 1, 1947 – December 11, 1967

Service record

Larry Earl McClung, of Denver, Colorado, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 11, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 82

Position of Panel 31E 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Boatswain's Mate (BM)
Born
August 1, 1947
Home of record
Denver, Colorado (Denver County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 11, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 82

From Denver

All 183 names from Denver →

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.