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LARRY WYNN PETETT
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
September 21, 1944 – February 27, 1968
Service recordLarry Wynn Petett, of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1968, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Ranger, Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (82162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 21, 1944
- Home of record
- Shawnee Mission, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Ba Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Ba Xugen Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Ba Xugen Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 53
- GILBERT SWAIN PALMER JRColonel · February 27, 1968
- ROBERT LAWRENCE POWERSPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- FERNANDO MENDOZA QUINTEROSergeant First Class · February 27, 1968
- RODNEY ALLEN ROATPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD MCGILL RENWICK JRCaptain · Panel 41E, Line 54
From Shawnee Mission
- RICHARD LYNN MOWREYLieutenant (junior grade) · December 14, 1966
- LAWRENCE WALKER SCANLANPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- ROBERT ORAL GIRDNERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- GEORGE DAVIDSON STONEPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- CHARLES ROBERT BALESSpecialist Four · August 22, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE GLYNNPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- WILLIS ALBERT TOOMESSergeant · September 21, 1968
- JAMES GILBERT HUMPHREYSergeant · November 11, 1968
- LANNY JOHN WALLACEFirst Lieutenant · July 21, 1970
- CHARLES LEE HOSKINSCaptain · February 16, 1971
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.