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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 Harvey Milford Mosher JR.

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HARVEY MILFORD MOSHER JR

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

March 30, 1944 – November 4, 1967

Service record

Harvey Milford Mosher JR, of Austin, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 21

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
Unit (as recorded)
591 ENG CO USARV
Born
March 30, 1944
Home of record
Austin, Texas (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 4, 1967
Age
23
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1967; two of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 21

From Austin

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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.