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LARRY EDWARD FOSTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 20, 1950 – December 27, 1968
Service recordLarry Edward Foster, of Lenoir City, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 27, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 80
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- June 20, 1950
- Home of record
- Lenoir City, Tennessee (Loudon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 80
- DAVID ALFRED VICARIOSpecialist Four · December 21, 1968
- CHARLES ROBERT COOKCorporal · December 27, 1968
- EDMUND VICTOR CUDNIKPrivate First Class · December 27, 1968
- JOE LOUIS EMERYPrivate First Class · December 27, 1968
- DARYL LEE ENGLISHPrivate First Class · December 27, 1968
From Lenoir City
- DENNIS TRUMAN HAYWORTHSpecialist Four · September 28, 1966
- HUBERT TUCK JRPetty Officer Second Class · October 18, 1966
- WILLIAM EARL BRIDGES JRPrivate First Class · December 22, 1967
- BENNY CHARLES BURNSSergeant · March 11, 1968
- LARRY DALE WEBBLance Corporal · March 27, 1968
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.