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LARRY LEONARD HOYT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 22, 1948 – February 10, 1968
Service recordLarry Leonard Hoyt, of Cobleskill, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- June 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Cobleskill, New York (Schoharie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 68
- RONALD DELL BUNTINGPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- EARL WARREN HAUGSergeant · February 10, 1968
- HUGH RICHARD JOHNSON JRSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- EUGENE VINCENT SONNERSergeant · February 10, 1968
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.