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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eddie Lee Moton JR.

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EDDIE LEE MOTON JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 4, 1946 – June 19, 1967

Service record

Eddie Lee Moton JR, of Talladega, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 16

Position of Panel 22E 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
October 4, 1946
Home of record
Talladega, Alabama (Talladega County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 19, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 16

Same unit, same day

From Talladega

All 15 names from Talladega →

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.