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LARRY LEE RAUSCHER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 19, 1946 – March 10, 1969
Service recordLarry Lee Rauscher, of Huntingburg, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 2
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- July 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Huntingburg, Indiana (Dubois County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1969; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 156 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 2
- CLARENCE E NUNNERY JRSergeant · March 10, 1969
- JOHN B PETERSON JRSpecialist Four · March 10, 1969
- AARON LEE SMITHSpecialist Four · March 10, 1969
- JAMES LAMAR YARBROUGHPrivate · March 10, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DONALD CHARLES GILLETTSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 101
From Huntingburg
- BOBBY RAY WAYMANLance Corporal · February 14, 1966
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.