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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 Oxley Carrington Moultrie.

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OXLEY CARRINGTON MOULTRIE

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 6, 1938 – May 26, 1967

Service record

Oxley Carrington Moultrie, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 26, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 122 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 122

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
February 6, 1938
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1967
Age
29
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1967; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 122

Same unit, same day

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.