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LARRY HUGH OERTEL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 31, 1945 – December 25, 1967
Service recordLarry Hugh Oertel, of Stratford, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 25, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 58
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
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Born
- August 31, 1945
- Home of record
- Stratford, Wisconsin (Marathon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 25, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 58
- THOMAS ANTHONY GRUDFirst Lieutenant · December 25, 1967
- DELBERT O LEWISPrivate First Class · December 25, 1967
- CHARLES D MCCLURGPrivate First Class · December 25, 1967
- JOHN D MORRISStaff Sergeant · December 25, 1967
From Stratford
- TERRENCE EUGENE KOHLBECKSergeant · May 6, 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.