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LARRY OVEID JULIAN BOOTY
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 14, 1944 – January 30, 1966
Service recordLarry Oveid Julian Booty, of Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 30, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 118
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- F CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- October 14, 1944
- Home of record
- Greenwell Springs, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1966; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 118
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- RICHARD GALE BILOTTACorporal · January 30, 1966
- DAVID JOHN BUDKACorporal · January 30, 1966
- DAVID DANIEL GENSEMER IIISpecialist Four · January 30, 1966
From Greenwell Springs
- TEDDY MYRLE HARTHospitalman · June 26, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH THIBODEAUXLance Corporal · October 19, 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.