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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ralph George Mahoney.

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RALPH GEORGE MAHONEY

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 4, 1929 – September 13, 1966

Service record

Ralph George Mahoney, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 92

Position of Panel 10E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 4, 1929
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 13, 1966
Age
37
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 92

Same unit, same day

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.