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LARRY WAYNE WATKINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 24, 1948 – May 9, 1969
Service recordLarry Wayne Watkins, of Kannapolis, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 34
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Kannapolis, North Carolina (Cabarrus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1969; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 25W, Line 34
- JAMES CLINTON WARDCorporal · May 9, 1969
- OSCAR LEE WHEELERPrivate First Class · May 9, 1969
- ALBERT ALLAN WHITTLECorporal · May 9, 1969
- JOE ALMEIDA JRStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1969
- HAROLD BUTLER DEELMaster Sergeant · May 10, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD DEAN BEACHCorporal · Panel 25W, Line 27
- SAMUEL CHRISTOPHER JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 25W, Line 28
- GERALD MCCORVEYSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 31
- VICTOR DAVID MORALESMajor · Panel 25W, Line 31
- JUAN ORTIZ-RAMIREZPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 31
From Kannapolis
- JOHN CORNELIUS DUNLAPLance Corporal · April 9, 1967
- JIMMY RICHARD COXLance Corporal · May 14, 1968
- JOHN TERRY MCINNISPrivate First Class · September 14, 1968
- JAMES DELANO ROBINSONPrivate First Class · December 2, 1968
- HAROLD REED RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · February 4, 1969
- RAYMOND ERVIN BAUMGARNERStaff Sergeant · March 14, 1969
- ROBERT LEE HAGER JRCorporal · September 22, 1969
- DONALD MONROE SHUESergeant First Class · November 3, 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.