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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Gene Kier.

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LARRY GENE KIER

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 29, 1949 – May 6, 1970

Service record

Larry Gene Kier, of Omaha, Nebraska, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on May 6, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 112

Position of Panel 11W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
September 29, 1949
Home of record
Omaha, Nebraska (Douglas County)

Casualty

Date of loss
May 6, 1970
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Unknown
First reported
Missing in action

Context · from the records

What was happening

59 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1970; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 112

Same unit, same day

From Omaha

All 96 names from Omaha →

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.