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LARRY JO GOSS
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
July 7, 1946 – February 14, 1968
Service recordLarry Jo Goss, of Marion, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 14, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 32
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- July 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Marion, Indiana (Grant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 14, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 14, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 39E, Line 32
- DENNIS K FLEMINGCorporal · February 14, 1968
- EDWARD LEE FRAZIERPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- LAWRENCE EDWARD GIBSONStaff Sergeant · February 14, 1968
- JOHN GODFREY JRFirst Lieutenant · February 14, 1968
From Marion
- JOSEPH DONALD GUERREROSpecialist Four · February 6, 1966
- THOMAS JEFFERSON FEARSCorporal · March 2, 1966
- MARVIN EDWARD GLASSBURNSergeant · March 21, 1966
- DAVID AMOS SCOTTSpecialist Four · May 6, 1966
- DAVID LEE DIXONStaff Sergeant · June 2, 1967
- TERRY VIRGIL LEACHPrivate First Class · September 2, 1967
- DONALD EARL CUTLERPrivate First Class · September 3, 1967
- CARL DINGUSCorporal · February 3, 1968
- TERRY LEE WEAVERPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- LARRY DEE SHERMANSpecialist Four · March 13, 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.