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LARRY PRESTON TYSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 6, 1945 – February 29, 1968
Service recordLarry Preston Tyson, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 29, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 11
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 6, 1945
- Home of record
- Houston, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 42E, Line 11
- JOHN WILLIAM TRACYSergeant · February 29, 1968
- ARTHUR JOHN TURKSTRASpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
- DARRELL RAYMOND UMHOLTZPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- LARRY JOHN WALTERMANPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PHILIP F GREENESpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 5
- RICHARD JAMES GROATPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 5
- MICHAEL EMMETT MARTINSpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 7
- EDWARD EUGENE MCCLELLANSergeant · Panel 42E, Line 8
- OTIS LEE NICKPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 8
- WILLIAM ROY WATTFirst Lieutenant · Panel 42E, Line 12
From Houston
- JOSEPH MICHAEL FAHEY JRCaptain · February 11, 1962
- JOHN F SHAUGHNESSY JRCaptain · February 3, 1963
- RICHARD DALE HILLAirman Second Class · December 6, 1963
- HUGHIE DARELL ADAMSMajor · January 7, 1964
- ALBERT LAWRENCE SHIMEKPrivate First Class · April 10, 1964
- BYRON CLARK STONECaptain · August 20, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HAVEMANNWarrant Officer 1 · October 7, 1964
- ROBERT GRAHAM BELLMajor · May 16, 1965
- LEROY ANTHONY BOURGEOISPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- ROBERT FILMORE BATSONSergeant · August 18, 1965
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.