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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gerald Crawford Mull.

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GERALD CRAWFORD MULL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 5, 1949 – April 13, 1968

Service record

Gerald Crawford Mull, of Vienna, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 13, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49E · Line 45

Position of Panel 49E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
February 5, 1949
Home of record
Vienna, Virginia (Fairfax County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 13, 1968
Age
19
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 49E, Line 45

Same unit, same day

From Vienna

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.