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LARRY GLEN MASSIE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 24, 1948 – June 20, 1968
Service recordLarry Glen Massie, of Tonkawa, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1968, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 45 MI CO DET MACV
- Born
- November 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Tonkawa, Oklahoma (Kay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Go Cong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Go Cong Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “45 MI CO DET MACV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 7
- LARRY RUSSELL KENNANNCorporal · June 20, 1968
- MICHAEL BENJAMIN KOPETSKICorporal · June 20, 1968
- THOMAS DANIEL LATANOWICHPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
- THOMAS MARTIN WERNERSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
From Tonkawa
- MARION LEE DIRICKSONCorporal · June 3, 1967
- DONALD RAY MOCKPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- JOHN CLARENCE STROMESpecialist Four · August 25, 1968
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.