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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mose Hegler JR.

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MOSE HEGLER JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 18, 1948 – December 27, 1967

Service record

Mose Hegler JR, of Magazine Point, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1967, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 72

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
August 18, 1948
Home of record
Magazine Point, Alabama (Mobile County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 27, 1967
Age
19
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

88 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 72

Same unit, same day

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.