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FRANCIS TRAINOR MULVEY
Corporal · U.S. Army
November 20, 1944 – August 25, 1968
Service recordFrancis Trainor Mulvey, of Fennimore, Wisconsin, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 18
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 20, 1944
- Home of record
- Fennimore, Wisconsin (Grant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 25, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46W, Line 18
- JERRY LLOYD DAVISSergeant · August 25, 1968
- PATRICK JOHN MCCORMICKCorporal · August 25, 1968
- GARRY MICHAEL MCCULLOUGHPrivate First Class · August 25, 1968
- ARDEN GENE SONNENBERGPrivate First Class · August 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH ERNEST FUNSTONCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 15
- LEO NEAL KRYSKESergeant First Class · Panel 46W, Line 17
- THOMAS JAMES WALKERCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 25
From Fennimore
- DONALD LAVERN SMITHStaff Sergeant · December 21, 1967
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.