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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 8545" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Thorne </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Larry Alan </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 SF Group (MACV- SOG) (RT Iowa)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">0-2287104</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>18th October 1965 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>46 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 60 Site 8136 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Norwalk,Connecticut</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 28.5.1919 Viipuri,Finland (as Torni,Lauri Allan)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>single</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served WW2 with Finnish Army and German Waffen SS (SS Norland Division)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>emigrated to USA 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>entered service 1954</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Airborne School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>77 SF Group 1955-57 (Staff Sgt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 1957</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>11th Airborne Division 1957-59</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>10 SF Group 1959-62</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>7 SF Group (Company A,1 Bn,Det A-734) 1963-64</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 SF Group 1964-65</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Special Detachment 5891,HQ MACV Advisors 1965</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>MACV-SOG (RT Iowa) 1965</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards D.F.C.,Bronze Star,Air Medal,Army Commendation Medal</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>killed in air crash (Vietnamese A.F. CH 34 helicopter) Phuoc Son,Quang Nam Province,</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>South Vietnam (1st MACV-SOG Shining Brass mission)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>body not recovered</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>declared dead 19.10.1966 as Major</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>remains repatriated 15.3.2002</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>remains identified 4.6.2003</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>buried 26.6.2003</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,DC Panel 02E Line 126 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-thorne.22030/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/22/22030-8f2e5f163bdee8d2f6378718e4cd1c8e.jpg?1591401190" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-thorne.22031/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/22/22031-f0d0301474f678e03a361248dfe3f3ba.jpg?1591401190" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-thorne.22032/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/22/22032-cef1dc5c1f5b05fcf20c31a157b9aa8a.jpg?1591401190" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-thorne.22034/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/22/22034-b43daf347bdae359c48520507af7f900.jpg?1591401191" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-thorne-grave.22033/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/22/22033-9a1e4c2b8dedd38c2c4df0186787ee51.jpg?1591401190" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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