In Loving Memory ... Sgt Larry Paul Bartlett.

You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in your family and those who knew you and loved you. You will live on because we remember you!


LARRY PAUL BARTLETT - Army - SFC - E7
Age: 32
Race: Caucasian
Date of Birth Sep 23, 1937
Birth Location: Blue Earth, Minnesota
From: TACOMA, WA
Religion: PROTESTANT
Marital Status: Single - Parents, Father, Lawrence (Laurence) T. Bartlett (Retired US Army) and Mother, Nora A. Gedde Bartlett, both of Tacoma, Washington. He has NO children. You had a TWIN sister names Baby Girl Barlett that died at birth. Maternal Uncle and Aunt, Walter Gedde and Gladys Gedde, both born in Minnesota.
* Maternal Grandparents: Grandfather, Sophus Gedde, FAG# 13157265, Born Jan. 19, 1860, was 50 yrs old when your Mom was born, he was born in Denmark. Grandmother, Anna S. Gedde, FAG # 13157247, Born 1866, was 41 yrs old when your Mom was born, she was born in Wisconsin.
* Laurence T. Bartlett - mentioned in the record of Baby Girl Bartlett
Name: Laurence T. Bartlett
Gender: Male
: Nora A. Gedde Bartlett
: Baby Girl Bartlett
Other information in the record of Baby Girl Bartlett
from Minnesota, Birth Index
Name: Baby Girl Bartlett
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 23 Sep 1937
Event Place: Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States
Father's Name: Laurence T. Bartlett
Mother's Name: Nora A. Gedde Bartlett

***** Nora A Bartlett - YOUR MOM............
United States Census, 1940
Name: Nora A Bartlett
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Lake Crystal, Lake Crystal City, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Minnesota
Birth Year (Estimated): 1910
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Nora A Bartlett Head F 30 Minnesota
Larry P Bartlett Son M 2 Minnesota





SFC - E7 - Army - Special Forces
Casualty was on Oct 13, 1969
In CAMBODIA
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS

Body was recovered
Panel 14W - Line 16



9 Jan 70- Larry Paul Bartlett, SFC E-7 and Richard Alan. Thomas, SGT E-5 of CCS, KIA'ed-RR My friend and long time SFTG roommate Richard Thomas who was KIA along with SFC Larry Bartlett.. They were on recon in NE Cambodia for CCS. Richard was a very kind guy, well liked but shy; he will always remain in my memory as a true friend. SFC Bartlett was 32 years old and was not married. Larry died from multiple fragmentation wounds SGT Thomas was 22 years old and was married. Richard Thomas died from small arms fire and was born on in Fresno, California.-John Hanscom, SFA

Larry P. Bartlett Services were held Tuesday at Willamette National Cemetery, in Portland OR for Sgt 1 C. Larry P. Bartlett, killed in action 9 Jan while on a combat mission in South Vietnam.

A member of the U. S. Army Special Forces, he was born in Minnesota and came here in 1962. He was a member of the Lutheran Church.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence T. Bartlett, of 10309 E. Polk St. (Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma WA, 22 Jan 1970)
The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam SOG 4 Men from Washington State were written about in this book from just a quick sentence or two to several pages. Larry Bartlett is a sentence or two in Chapter 13 Daniel Boone Again "Northeast Cambodia was getting hot, very hot.

On 9 January a CCS team led by Sergeant First Class Larry Bartlett with Sergeant Richard Thomas as One-One, was moving toward an LZ about 30 miles south of where RT Vermont had been hit when a large NVA force pounced on them killing both Americans.

A Bright Light team inserted, fought its way through an NVA faorce, losing one Yard, and recovered their bodies page 256 The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam SOG by John L. Plaster, copyright July 1998, published Onyx


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To Eddie B. Martinez
From pat mccraney

He was born Sept. 23, 1937, in Minnesota, and moved to Tacoma in 1962. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence T. Bartlett, lived at 10309 East Polk St.
He was single, Lutheran and a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. He was a sergeant first class, leading a mission into Northeast Cambodia on Jan. 9, 1970, when he was killed by North Vietnamese soldiers. He is buried in Willamette National Cemetery in Portland.

And there is an omission.

The sites list Oct. 13, 1969, as the beginning of Bartlett's tour of duty.

They do not mention that it was his second tour. They don't tell how he came to be admired and respected by the doctors, nurses and technicians of Madigan Army Medical Center who rebuilt his battle-shattered jaw from Aug. 17, 1967, to Aug. 13, 1968.

His story, and a gift he gave to Madigan, now rest with Bertha Logan, the technician who took panoramic X-rays of his face as it healed. Logan is 77, widowed and moving from the Wapato Lake neighborhood where she and her husband, William, were among the black pioneers.

"Somebody needs to know about this man, what a brave soldier he was," she said of Bartlett.

It took a solid year to rebuild his face, she said. There were, Logan said, so many young men who came to Madigan's Department of Dentistry by way of shrapnel, grenades and bullets. Their mouths were wired shut, she said, so they could barely talk. "They always wore scissors, so if they began to choke, they could cut the wires," she said.
Sgt. Bartlett, she said, would come for the X-rays, then ask, through his wired mouth what he could do around the department.

"He was very handsome," Logan said. "A lot of the girls would flirt with him. He could have been playing cards. He was a sergeant first class, a top rank in the elite Green Berets, but he chose to work. He wanted to scrub the instruments in oral surgery, the department where he was being treated. He would scrub them before they were sterilized."

She and the others assumed that when he was healed, Bartlett would head back to his family, or anywhere but Southeast Asia.

"We did not know he wanted to go back to Vietnam," Logan said.
Then, after his release, he showed up with a token of his appreciation.

"He was dressed in his uniform, with his green beret," she said. "He was so handsome. And he presented us with this beautiful bronze soldier."

Standing 10 inches tall on a wooden base, the statue bears an inscription: "Madigan Dental Department. In appreciation for TPC."

"TPC. Tender professional care," Logan said. "Isn't that beautiful?"


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