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LARRY GENE DROWN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 13, 1945 – September 25, 1968
Service recordLarry Gene Drown, of Green Springs, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 10
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Green Springs, Ohio (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 25, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 10
- JAMES BRUCE COLLINSCorporal · September 25, 1968
- RONALD LEON DELVERDECorporal · September 25, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM EASTONFirst Lieutenant · September 25, 1968
- ERNEST LEROY ROWESergeant · September 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS KNUTE BLAINPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 9
- JAMES BRUCE COLLINSCorporal · Panel 42W, Line 10
- JAMES HENRY MORGANPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 13
- EVERETT HAROLD SMITH JRSpecialist Four · Panel 42W, Line 14
From Green Springs
- GENE FRANCIS LEESpecialist Four · December 13, 1967
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.