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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 Terry Ward Mott.

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TERRY WARD MOTT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 21, 1944 – April 20, 1968

Service record

Terry Ward Mott, of Horseheads, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 51E · Line 10

Position of Panel 51E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
November 21, 1944
Home of record
Horseheads, New York (Chemung County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 20, 1968
Age
23
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 51E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Horseheads

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.