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LARRY EUGENE SOMMERS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 28, 1948 – November 12, 1968
Service recordLarry Eugene Sommers, of Aptos, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Aptos, California (Santa Cruz County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 57
- DANIEL EUGENE SPENCER JRCorporal · November 12, 1968
- WYATT STEPHEN THOMASPrivate First Class · November 12, 1968
- TERRY MICHAEL WESTERGARDLance Corporal · November 12, 1968
- CHARLES ROBERT BOGARTSergeant · November 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WYATT STEPHEN THOMASPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 57
From Aptos
- MARK LANE CORRIEPrivate First Class · June 7, 1966
- ARTHUR FREDERICK GLEIM JRSpecialist Four · August 4, 1970
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.