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RANDOLPH LOUIS LARSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 1, 1949 – August 11, 1969
Service recordRandolph Louis Larson, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 11, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 3
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 1, 1949
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date August 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 19W, Line 3
- BERNARD LEE HOLZKNECHTCorporal · August 11, 1969
- RANDALL FRANK KASERPrivate First Class · August 11, 1969
- JAMES JOSEPH KESTERPrivate First Class · August 11, 1969
- MICHAEL HOWARD LAWHONPrivate First Class · August 11, 1969
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.