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LARRY JAMES PORTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 15, 1950 – October 21, 1971
Service recordLarry James Porter, of Turbeville, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 21, 1971, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 46
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
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- November 15, 1950
- Home of record
- Turbeville, South Carolina (Clarendon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 21, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 21, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 46
- JAMES MELVIN HINKLESpecialist Four · October 21, 1971
- WILLIAM JOHN MAKOWSKIPrivate First Class · October 21, 1971
- DANIEL STEPHEN SALASPrivate First Class · October 21, 1971
- ROY DWIGHT BARNESWarrant Officer 1 · October 22, 1971
From Turbeville
- CHARLES RUSSELL YATESCorporal · January 23, 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.