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Campos

Engineeer

LARRY CAMPOS

B Battery, 4/42nd Artillery (Straight Arrows) - assigned to 1/12th Infantry See additional info at bottom of page

Rosewell, New Mexico

 

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PERSONAL
 Last Name: Campos
 First Name: Larry
 Middle Name: Paul
 Home of Record (official):

Roswell

 State (official): New Mexico
 Date of Birth: Tuesday 28 January 1947
 Sex: Male
 Race: White
   

MILITARY
 Branch: Army  
 Rank:

Pecialist Fourth Class
 Serial Number: 1873841
 Component: Regular
 Pay grade: E-4
 MOS: 12A2P (Pioneer)
 Awards: CIB, Bronze Star
 Unit: 1st Platoon, Engineer Battalion, Attached to B 1/12th Infantry
     

ACTION
 Start of Tour: 30 August 1966  
 Date of Casualty:

 WIA Friday, 2 Dec 1966, Died Saturday 3 Dec 1966

 Age at time of loss: 19  
 Casualty type: Hostile, Died of wounds  
 Reason: Gun, small arms fire (Ground casualty)  
 Country: South Vietnam  
 Province: Pleiku  
 Location: YA 580540  
 The Wall: Panel 13E - Row 008  
     
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The casualty database and other available information indicates that 1/12 Infantry lost three men on 02 Dec 1966, two from A Company and one from B Company, while operating in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border. S. L. A. Marshall's book West to Cambodia proves SP4 Campos was with Bravo 1/12 that day ... it contains the following on page 196:
"The second man, Spec. 4 Larry Compos, took two bullets to the chest, dying the following morning. The third man Pfc. Monnett Gilbey [sic] was shot through the heart."
The four men who died on 02/03 December were:

  1. 1LT Mark N. Enari, Pasadena, CA, A/1/12 Inf (KIA) (Silver Star)
  2. SP4 Larry P. Campos, Roswell, NM, B/4th Eng (DoW 03 Dec)
  3. PFC Tommy Jones, Bakersfield, CA, A/1/12 Inf (KIA) (Silver Star)
  4. PFC Mehmet A. Gill-Bey, New York, NY, B/1/12 Inf (KIA)