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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Keith Hendee.

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LARRY KEITH HENDEE

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

November 18, 1944 – October 31, 1968

Service record

Larry Keith Hendee, of Round Lake, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 31, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 65

Position of Panel 40W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
November 18, 1944
Home of record
Round Lake, Illinois (Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 31, 1968
Age
23
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

47 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1968; ten of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 65

Same unit, same day

From Round Lake

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.