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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Franklin Arnold.

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LARRY FRANKLIN ARNOLD

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

July 27, 1948 – August 26, 1967

Service record

Larry Franklin Arnold, of Greenville, South Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 26, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 46

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
July 27, 1948
Home of record
Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 26, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 46

From Greenville

All 52 names from Greenville →

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.