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LARRY EUGENE SINKS
Seaman · U.S. Navy
April 29, 1947 – February 27, 1968
Service recordLarry Eugene Sinks, of Chatsworth, Illinois, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 27, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Seaman (SN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Seaman (SN)
- Born
- April 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Chatsworth, Illinois (Livingston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 54
- HAROLD MCGILL RENWICK JRCaptain · February 27, 1968
- WILLIAM WAKEFIELD ROUSHMajor · February 27, 1968
- RUFFIN J SATTERWHITE JRSpecialist Four · February 27, 1968
- MITCHELL FRANCIS SEKSpecialist Four · February 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.