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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Leroy Reissig.

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LARRY LEROY REISSIG

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 24, 1947 – May 13, 1967

Service record

Larry Leroy Reissig, of Assaria, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 111

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
C BTRY 2 BN 13 ARTY 23 ARTY GRP
Born
June 24, 1947
Home of record
Assaria, Kansas (Saline County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “C BTRY 2 BN 13 ARTY 23 ARTY GRP”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 111

Same unit, same day

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.