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MAURICE WILLIAM MOSHER
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 16, 1927 – May 25, 1965
Service recordMaurice William Mosher, of Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 124
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 16, 1927
- Home of record
- Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania (Luzerne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1965
- Age
- 37
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1965. In May 1965, 89 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 124
- ORIEN JUDSON WALKER JRMajor · May 23, 1965
- LYNN WAITMAN PETERSSpecialist Five · May 25, 1965
- RAYMOND JOE VRBA JRStaff Sergeant · May 25, 1965
- FLEMING B BRAINERD IIICaptain · May 26, 1965
Same unit, same day
- LYNN WAITMAN PETERSSpecialist Five · Panel 1E, Line 124
- RAYMOND JOE VRBA JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 1E, Line 124
From Glen Lyon
- STANLEY BERNARD HOJNOWSKISpecialist Four · August 6, 1969
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.