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LARRY GENE BELDEN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 10, 1949 – July 26, 1969
Service recordLarry Gene Belden, of Esbon, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 26, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 46
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- November 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Esbon, Kansas (Jewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 26, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1969; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 46
- ALBERT VICK JRSpecialist Four · July 25, 1969
- SILAS CLIFTON WRIGHTPrivate First Class · July 25, 1969
- RICHARD DAVID BRENNINGLieutenant · July 26, 1969
- ALPHONSO DEDRICK COWANPrivate First Class · July 26, 1969
From Esbon
- PAUL EDWARD THOMASSergeant · April 5, 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.