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LARRY WILLIAM BRENDEL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 7, 1945 – February 23, 1967
Service recordLarry William Brendel, of Muscatine, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 7, 1945
- Home of record
- Muscatine, Iowa (Muscatine County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 77
- ROBERT LEE SHOLLCaptain · February 22, 1967
- MICHAEL LEWIS UTLEYPrivate First Class · February 22, 1967
- CRAIG STEPHEN VAUGHTSpecialist Four · February 22, 1967
- SALVADOR ZABALA JRSergeant · February 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JULIAN WAYNE COUCHPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 15E, Line 78
- HOWARD DEXTER GERSHENPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 79
- EARLEY JOSEPH MESSERCorporal · Panel 15E, Line 81
From Muscatine
- CHARLES DOUGLAS KINGChief Master Sergeant · December 25, 1968
- GARY LEE BROOKHARTPrivate First Class · May 9, 1969
- ALBERT DEAN FOSTERSergeant First Class · May 10, 1969
- JERRY ARTHUR BUNNFirst Lieutenant · July 16, 1969
- WILLIAM MORRIS COZADCorporal · May 13, 1970
- LANNY ALLEN YORKFirst Lieutenant · September 16, 1972
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.