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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 Ray Driskell.

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LARRY RAY DRISKELL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 11, 1946 – August 11, 1966

Service record

Larry Ray Driskell, of Riverton, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 9E · Line 127

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
August 11, 1946
Home of record
Riverton, Iowa (Fremont County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 11, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date August 11, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 9E, Line 127

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.