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LARRY ELBERT COLLINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 5, 1947 – November 24, 1969
Service recordLarry Elbert Collins, of Wytheville, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1969, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 115
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Wytheville, Virginia (Wythe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 24, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1969; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 115
- ROGER LEE BYUSPrivate First Class · November 24, 1969
- BILLY LEE COKERPetty Officer Third Class · November 24, 1969
- HOWARD BRISBANE COMER JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 24, 1969
- ROBERT FREW CONTIFirst Lieutenant · November 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS MARCELLUS TAYLORSpecialist Four · Panel 16W, Line 119
From Wytheville
- EDWARD DARRELL AKERSPrivate First Class · January 11, 1966
- JESSE STEPHEN MANUEL JRPrivate First Class · June 1, 1969
- STEPHEN MICHAEL BRUMFIELDPetty Officer Third Class · July 4, 1972
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.