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Last Rank
Private 1st Class
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Last Primary MOS
0311-Rifleman
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Last MOSGroup
Infantry
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Previously Held MOS
Not Specified
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Last Unit
1967-1968, 0311, 1st Bn (1/7)/D Co
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Service Years
1966 - 1967
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State of Birth
Texas | |
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Year of Birth
1947 |
Home Town
Not Specified |
Last Address
Ranger
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Casualty Date
Mar 17, 1968 |
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Cause
Hostile, Died |
Reason
Other Explosive Device |
Location
Quang Nam |
Conflict
Vietnam |
Location of Interment
Not Specified |
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Last Known Activity
The following is transcribed from the official letters sent to Mrs. Virgie R. Burrow, dated 12 Sep 1968, regarding the presentation of the Silver Star Medal posthumously to Private First Class Larry Joe Rodgers United States Marine Corps for service as set forth in the following: CITATION."For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Rifleman with Company D, First Battalion, Seventh Marines, First Marine Division in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On the afternoon of 17 March 1968, during operation WORTH, Private First Class RODGERS' company was assaulting a large, well entrenched North Vietnamese Army force. As the Marines manuvered forward, they began receiving intense automatic weapons, mortar and anti-tank rocket fire. In the initial burst of fire, all members of the lead squad's machine gun team were wounded. Disregading his own safety. Private First Class RODGERS seized the weapon and immediately began delivering a heavy volume of fire against the enemy positions, which enabled his unit to manuver to covered positions. Ignoring the hostile fire impacting around him, he resolutely remained in his dangerously exposed position and continued firing the weapon for ten minutes until he was mortally wounded by enemy automatic weapons fire. By his courage, aggressive fighting spirit and steadfast devotion to duty, Private First Class RODGERS upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service." This letter is signed, For the President, by John J. Hyland, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet. -My dear friend Larry Joe Rodgers made the ultimate sacrifice for his God and his country as have countless soldiers through the ages. He fulfilled his obligations as a soldier and a Marine while on this earthly plane and since that hellish day in March of 1968 has known the ultimate reward.PEACE in a place that knows nothing about such horrors. "As with all heroes, his real distinction is expressed not in medals but in the memory of his deed." A quote from Marine Corps General L.F. Chapman, then Commandant of the Marine Corps
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Comments/Citation
Vietnam Wall Panel coords 45E 014
Tour Start Date: 16 Dec 1967
Death Date: 17 Mar 1968.
Age: 20
PFC - E2 - Marine Corps - Regular
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 16, 1967
Casualty was on Mar 17, 1968
In QUANG NAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
OTHER EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
Body was recovered
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