4^th Infantry Division

1^st Battalion, 12^th Infantry Regiment

CASUALTY REPORT

SP4 Larry Campos was a combat engineer assigned to Bravo 4th Engineers and serving with B Company, 1st Bn, 12th Infantry as a member of their attached combat engineer team.

-- Personal --

Last Name:	Campos
First Name:	Larry
Middle Name:	Paul
Home of Record (official):	Roswell
State (official):	New Mexico
Date of Birth:	Tuesday 28Jjanuary 1947
Sex:	Male
Race:	White
Marital Status:

 

-- Military --

Branch:	Army
Rank:	Specialist Fourth Class
Serial Number:	18731841
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 December 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

 

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