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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 Victor Allen Mohr.

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VICTOR ALLEN MOHR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 11, 1931 – April 25, 1968

Service record

Victor Allen Mohr, of Salamanca, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52E · Line 8

Position of Panel 52E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
January 11, 1931
Home of record
Salamanca, New York (Cattaraugus County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 25, 1968
Age
37
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 52E, Line 8

From Salamanca

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.