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LARRY FRANKLIN NEWCOMB
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 30, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordLarry Franklin Newcomb, of Corinth, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 28
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- June 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Corinth, Mississippi (Alcorn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 34 of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Bien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 28
- JEFFERY CLARK MCTEERPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- CHRISTIAN HERMAN MORRISONPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- VERNON LEE NEWTONStaff Sergeant · January 31, 1968
- JOHN LEIF NIELSONPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN FRANCIS MARTINLieutenant Colonel · Panel 36E, Line 24
From Corinth
- BOBBY HUDSONSpecialist Four · December 10, 1966
- CLYDE RAYMOND PHILLIPSStaff Sergeant · January 8, 1968
- PRINCE ARTHUR JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- GARY KENNETH LANNOMPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
- HERSHEL EUGENE MORROWPrivate First Class · September 6, 1968
- GERHARD W C VANDERFORDSpecialist Four · January 3, 1969
- JERRY WAYNE TALLEYPrivate First Class · January 25, 1969
- WEYMAN TERRY COOKSpecialist Four · March 6, 1969
- TROY LEE WALKERPrivate First Class · September 3, 1969
- DOUGLAS EVERETT BYRDSpecialist Four · October 8, 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.