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LARRY EARL TENNILL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 1, 1946 – January 10, 1966
Service recordLarry Earl Tennill, of Slater, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 10, 1966, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 62
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Slater, Missouri (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1966; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 62
- MATTHEW JOHN PECHAITISSecond Lieutenant · January 10, 1966
- HUGH FRED SPAINSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
- CHARLES DELANO SWARTZPrivate First Class · January 10, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM THOMASSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
From Slater
- ESTILL LEE CHILDERSLance Corporal · September 24, 1966
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.