THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Sp4 Larry Hodges, Thank you for your service as an Observation/Scout Helicopter Repairer. Your 71st birthday is soon - happy birthday. Happy Summer in heaven! Please watch over the USA, it still needs your strength. Rest in peace with the angels.

Larry served with the 34th Engineer Battalion, and he is remembered every year at their reunion when the unit holds a memorial service for all of the members of the unit that did not come home.

If anyone has a photo of Larry that they are willing to share, the unit would like to get a copy of it to include in the service. You can contact us on Facebook through the site 34th Engineer Battalion Vietnam.

On March 11, 1969, a U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A (tail number 67-16507) from the 20th Engineer Brigade operating in Bien Hoa Province (III Corps) crashed and burned after coming under unknown enemy ground fire. Both pilot 1LT Walter A. Koehler and passenger SP4 Larry L. Hodges suffered fatal injuries in the crash. [Taken from vhpa.org]

Dear SP4 Larry Leon Hodges, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

With respect, Sir

Curt Carter

Larry is buried at Hodges Cemetery, Spencer,TN. ARCOM PH