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LARRY LEE BAXTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 7, 1947 – May 12, 1969
Service recordLarry Lee Baxter, of Pierce City, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 61
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Pierce City, Missouri (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; 44 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 61
- DAVID MICHAEL BECKSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- ARTHUR FREDERICK BELLCorporal · May 12, 1969
- RICHARD JAY BENNETTCorporal · May 12, 1969
- ALLAN CAMERON BENSONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GERALD RICHARD ACTONSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 58
- RODNEY H MAUNAKEASpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 77
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.