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LARRY WILLIAM SWIGGUM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 6, 1947 – August 7, 1968
Service recordLarry William Swiggum, of Genoa, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 7, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 26
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- November 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Genoa, Wisconsin (Vernon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date August 7, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 26
- JAMES MILTON ROBINSCorporal · August 7, 1968
- NICHOLAS LEE SCHROEDERCorporal · August 7, 1968
- JOHN RICHARD SHEROKE JRPrivate First Class · August 7, 1968
- BEN WESLEY STEPHENSSergeant · August 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS LEIGH PIPERPrivate First Class · Panel 49W, Line 25
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.