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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry R Doyle.

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LARRY R DOYLE

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

October 3, 1942 – December 29, 1967

Service record

Larry R Doyle, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 92

Position of Panel 32E 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
October 3, 1942
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 29, 1967
Age
25
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 92

Same unit, same day

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.