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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alden Gray Mosher JR.

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ALDEN GRAY MOSHER JR

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

January 21, 1943 – December 15, 1967

Service record

Alden Gray Mosher JR, of Toledo, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 15, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 2

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Basic Engineer, Construction, And Equipment Off (I) (1301)
Born
January 21, 1943
Home of record
Toledo, Ohio (Lucas County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 15, 1967
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 2

From Toledo

All 118 names from Toledo →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.