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LARRY LEE TOLLIVER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 2, 1943 – May 9, 1968
Service recordLarry Lee Tolliver, of Churchville, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- November 2, 1943
- Home of record
- Churchville, Maryland (Harford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 34
- CLAUDE DOUGLAS PROTZCorporal · May 9, 1968
- RANDOLPH JOEL STERNSPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- NELSON CHRISTAN SWANKERLance Corporal · May 9, 1968
- FRANKLIN ARTHUR TOWNSENDSergeant · May 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH NICK DAMBRASpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 18
- JOHN MILLARD SCHNEIDERSergeant · Panel 57E, Line 32
From Churchville
- GEORGE ALLEN DEMBYSpecialist Four · March 11, 1969
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.