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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Joe Liles.

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LARRY JOE LILES

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 10, 1946 – May 25, 1967

Service record

Larry Joe Liles, of Hershey, Nebraska, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 104

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AVN CO 11 AVN BN
Born
March 10, 1946
Home of record
Hershey, Nebraska (Lincoln County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 104

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.