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LARRY SHEA
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 21, 1948 – August 24, 1969
Service recordLarry Shea, of Eminence, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 109
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- May 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Eminence, Kentucky (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 109
- BOBBY LEE ROBERTSPrivate First Class · August 24, 1969
- JOSE F ROSADO-BORGESPrivate First Class · August 24, 1969
- CHARLES HAROLD SCHAEFERFirst Lieutenant · August 24, 1969
- ROBERT CHARLES SCHELL JRSpecialist Four · August 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BERNARD PHILLIP BAILEYSpecialist Four · Panel 19W, Line 105
From Eminence
- ROBERT EARL MCKEEPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- HAROLD RAY SPILLMANSergeant · September 13, 1970
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.