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Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970.
Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Fred Mooney.

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FRED MOONEY

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 19, 1934 – February 27, 1971

Service record

Fred Mooney, of Northup, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1971, in Laos, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
July 19, 1934
Home of record
Northup, Ohio (Gallia County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 27, 1971
Age
36
Country
Laos
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1971. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.

He died in Laos while Operation Lam Son 719 was under way. In Lam Son 719 (February–March 1971), South Vietnamese troops drove into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, carried and supported by U.S. helicopters and aircraft; more than 100 U.S. helicopters were lost.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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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.