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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Wayne Anderson.

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LARRY WAYNE ANDERSON

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 4, 1949 – June 23, 1970

Service record

Larry Wayne Anderson, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9W · Line 81

Position of Panel 9W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
April 4, 1949
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 23, 1970
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1970; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9W, Line 81

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.