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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Moulden.

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JOHN MOULDEN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 28, 1945 – November 28, 1968

Service record

John Moulden, of Harwood, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 28, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 1

Position of Panel 37W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
November 28, 1945
Home of record
Harwood, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 28, 1968
Age
23
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date November 28, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 1

From Harwood

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.