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LARRY FLOYD CASTLE
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
November 21, 1946 – November 28, 1966
Service recordLarry Floyd Castle, of Ironton, Ohio, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 28, 1966, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 126
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 116 AVN CO 11 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Ironton, Ohio (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 28, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date November 28, 1966; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “116 AVN CO 11 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 126
- JOHN JOSEPH STEWARTPrivate First Class · November 27, 1966
- DAVID WISNIEWSKIPrivate First Class · November 27, 1966
- ROBERT CRAIG BOELZNERPrivate First Class · November 28, 1966
- WILLIAM ROBERT DEVOREPrivate · November 28, 1966
Same unit, same day
- MERCED HERMAN GONZALESPrivate First Class · Panel 12E, Line 127
- CARROLL L RODGERSStaff Sergeant · Panel 12E, Line 127
- DAVID LEE SIVERLYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 12E, Line 127
From Ironton
- WILLIAM THOMAS BOWMANStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1965
- CURTIS RAY CRUMPrivate First Class · December 1, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD BROWNSergeant · February 12, 1969
- JAMES ERNEST BOWMANStaff Sergeant · June 29, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH RUSSELLSpecialist Four · August 2, 1970
- JAMES ROBERT BRYANTPrivate First Class · March 7, 1972
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.