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MARVIN DEAN LARSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 22, 1949 – October 11, 1969
Service recordMarvin Dean Larson, of Woonsocket, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 11, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 67
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
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Woonsocket, South Dakota (Sanborn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date October 11, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 67
- LEO FRED JOHNSONSergeant First Class · October 11, 1969
- VICTOR LAWRENCE JONESPrivate First Class · October 11, 1969
- FRANK W KINKAID JRSpecialist Four · October 11, 1969
- BERNARD RICHARD KNAPICLieutenant Colonel · October 11, 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.