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LARRY MAURICE MASON
Private · U.S. Army
December 14, 1950 – March 21, 1971
Service recordLarry Maurice Mason, of Waverly, Virginia, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 64
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 (PVT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- December 14, 1950
- Home of record
- Waverly, Virginia (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1971; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 64
- JAMES WALTER MANTHEIWarrant Officer 1 · March 21, 1971
- BILLIE JAYE MARLINGPrivate First Class · March 21, 1971
- CLAUDIUS AUGUSTUS SMALLSergeant · March 21, 1971
- ANDRE BARRY TIMSPrivate First Class · March 21, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ANDRE BARRY TIMSPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 64
From Waverly
- WALTER C VELVET JRSergeant · March 2, 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.