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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Warren Herbert Mobley.

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WARREN HERBERT MOBLEY

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

May 3, 1937 – November 24, 1970

Service record

Warren Herbert Mobley, of Tampa, Florida, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 81

Position of Panel 6W 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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
May 3, 1937
Home of record
Tampa, Florida (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1970
Age
33
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1970. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 81

Same unit, same day

From Tampa

All 122 names from Tampa →

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.