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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Morgan Kelly.

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LARRY MORGAN KELLY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 22, 1949 – August 22, 1969

Service record

Larry Morgan Kelly, of Akron, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1969, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 94

Position of Panel 19W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Born
May 22, 1949
Home of record
Akron, Ohio

Casualty

Date of death
August 22, 1969
Age
20
Added to the Wall
2012

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1969. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 94

From Akron

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2012, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.