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LARRY GENE PATTERSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 12, 1949 – May 10, 1968
Service recordLarry Gene Patterson, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 13
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58E, Line 13
- ROBERT CRANLEY ONSLOWCaptain · May 10, 1968
- THOMAS HEPBURN PERRYSergeant First Class · May 10, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL POWELLPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
- HOWARD EMERSON QUERRYSergeant · May 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN MARSHALL CALLAHAM JRCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 5
- SHELBY EMERSON COOLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 6
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 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.