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LARRY EUGENE VANMETER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 1, 1947 – October 7, 1968
Service recordLarry Eugene Vanmeter, of Columbus Grove, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 7, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 27
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Columbus Grove, Ohio (Putnam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 7, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date October 7, 1968. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 27
- JAMES ROBERT SHERWOODPrivate First Class · October 7, 1968
- WILLIAM CONRAD SHUMANSpecialist Four · October 7, 1968
- KENNETH HOWARD SILLSCorporal · October 7, 1968
- WILLIAM D VANTASSEL JRSergeant · October 7, 1968
From Columbus Grove
- JERRY WAYNE OSBORNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1965
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.