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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Paul Bartlett.

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LARRY PAUL BARTLETT

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

September 23, 1937 – January 9, 1970

Service record

Larry Paul Bartlett, of Tacoma, Washington, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 9, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 16

Position of Panel 14W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
September 23, 1937
Home of record
Tacoma, Washington (Pierce County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 9, 1970
Age
32
Country
Cambodia
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date January 9, 1970. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 16

Same unit, same day

From Tacoma

All 79 names from Tacoma →

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.