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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 Walter Hugh Mauldin.

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WALTER HUGH MAULDIN

Master Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 9, 1931 – May 8, 1968

Service record

Walter Hugh Mauldin, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 60E · Line 14

Position of Panel 60E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Master Sergeant (MSG)
Born
September 9, 1931
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia

Casualty

Date of death
May 8, 1968
Age
36
Added to the Wall
2014

Context · from the records

What was happening

78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 60E, Line 14

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2014, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.