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LARRY EUGENE SHEPHERD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 1, 1944 – November 29, 1967
Service recordLarry Eugene Shepherd, of South Lebanon, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- July 1, 1944
- Home of record
- South Lebanon, Ohio (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 6
- HERMAN ALVIN MCBRIDESergeant First Class · November 29, 1967
- KENNETH HAROLD NORESpecialist Four · November 29, 1967
- WILLIE LEE SHEGOGSpecialist Four · November 29, 1967
- RICHARD G STAMPER JRSergeant · November 29, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONALD LEE HETTICHCorporal · Panel 31E, Line 4
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.