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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 Will Bloodsworth.

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LARRY WILL BLOODSWORTH

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 2, 1946 – June 10, 1967

Service record

Larry Will Bloodsworth, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 82

Position of Panel 21E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
Born
October 2, 1946
Home of record
Houston, Texas (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 10, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 82

From Houston

All 358 names from Houston →

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.