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LARRY RALPH LALAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 3, 1948 – November 10, 1968
Service recordLarry Ralph Lalan, of Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 10, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 44
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin (Rusk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 44
- GEORGE WILLIAM HOLLCorporal · November 10, 1968
- RONALD JOHN JENSENSergeant · November 10, 1968
- MICHAEL CARMELO MANNINASpecialist Four · November 10, 1968
- WILLIAM MILLER JRPrivate First Class · November 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE WILLIAM HOLLCorporal · Panel 39W, Line 44
- HARRY W WICKERSHAM JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 39W, Line 45
From Weyerhaeuser
- JEREMY ROBERT WOJTKIEWICZFirst Lieutenant · January 17, 1969
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.