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LARRY EUGENE GONZALEZ
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 8, 1949 – December 21, 1967
Service recordLarry Eugene Gonzalez, of Atmore, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 21, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 35
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
- September 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Atmore, Alabama (Escambia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 35
- JAMES LYNN BURNSFirst Lieutenant · December 21, 1967
- ARTHUR PERRY COPELANDLance Corporal · December 21, 1967
- MITCHELL JEROME DUNCANPrivate First Class · December 21, 1967
- MICHAEL JOHN FEAGANCorporal · December 21, 1967
From Atmore
- JACK ELLIOTT CLEMMONSSpecialist Five · December 18, 1965
- ELMER JACK TAYLORSergeant · March 30, 1966
- JAMES MATHEW KELLYSpecialist Four · November 8, 1966
- ALLEN TWIGGS MERRITT IVPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- RICHARD BENJAMINCorporal · February 6, 1968
- LARRY BENJAMIN THOMASSpecialist Four · January 15, 1969
- JAMES RAYFORD GOHAGINSpecialist Five · May 13, 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.