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LARRY GENE RATLIFF
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 9, 1948 – December 7, 1968
Service recordLarry Gene Ratliff, of Louisa, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 7, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 59
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Louisa, Kentucky (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 59
- FRED ALEXANDER RATLIFFSergeant · December 7, 1968
- KENNETH WILLIAM RUBBOPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JAY JULIUS SCHMIDSergeant · December 7, 1968
- HERBERT KIRK SKINNERPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
From Louisa
- ELLSWORTH SWANNPrivate First Class · December 14, 1967
- JIMMY WAYNE HARDWICKCorporal · October 25, 1968
- CHARLES SPENCER JONESWarrant Officer 1 · February 14, 1969
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.