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LARRY FLOYD DODDS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 28, 1948 – May 20, 1969
Service recordLarry Floyd Dodds, of Booneville, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Booneville, Mississippi (Prentiss County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 58
- EDWARD ALLEN BROOKSPrivate First Class · May 20, 1969
- ROBERT WALTER BUCKLEYSpecialist Four · May 20, 1969
- JOE THOMAS CONKLEFirst Lieutenant · May 20, 1969
- DONOVAN RUSSEL FLUHARTYSpecialist Four · May 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL SIMON BEHARSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 57
- RAEFORD JAMES GERALD JRPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 59
- ROY WAYNE GRAHAMPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 59
From Booneville
- KENNETH BRAXTON CARPENTERSergeant · January 2, 1968
- WILLIAM FRANKLIN STRINGERPrivate First Class · June 25, 1969
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.