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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 William Francis Moseley.

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WILLIAM FRANCIS MOSELEY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 10, 1949 – December 4, 1967

Service record

William Francis Moseley, of Moorestown, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 37

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
March 10, 1949
Home of record
Moorestown, New Jersey (Burlington County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 4, 1967
Age
18
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1967; five of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 37

Same unit, same day

From Moorestown

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.