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LARRY LESTER WOOD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 22, 1948 – December 20, 1969
Service recordLarry Lester Wood, of Carrollton, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Carrollton, Georgia (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 75
- WOODROW WILSON SNYDER JRStaff Sergeant · December 20, 1969
- WILLIAM MAYO STEVENSONCorporal · December 20, 1969
- DOUGLAS WHITING YOUNGLance Corporal · December 20, 1969
- ROY JEFFREY BURKESpecialist Four · December 21, 1969
From Carrollton
- JIMMIE ELLIS TAYLORSpecialist Four · October 25, 1966
- SAMUEL REESE JAMES IICorporal · August 10, 1968
- LARRY GRAVESCorporal · April 2, 1970
- JOHN SPURGEON SPREWELLCaptain · May 19, 1970
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.