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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 Moses Mickle.

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MOSES MICKLE

Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 29, 1933 – November 1, 1967

Service record

Moses Mickle, of Columbia, South Carolina, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 4

Position of Panel 29E 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
Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 29, 1933
Home of record
Columbia, South Carolina (Richland County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 1, 1967
Age
34
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Columbia

All 68 names from Columbia →

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.