MELVIN CALVIN MAULDIN

Company A 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

DOW 10/12/1968

 

 

Age: 20
Race: Negro
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Jan 19, 1948
From: WILLIAMSTON, SC
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single

Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Jul 10, 1968
Casualty was on Oct 12, 1968
In QUANG DUC, SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died of wounds, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

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Melvin Mauldin was severely wounded in action during an engagement with hostile forces,
evacuted to a military hospital where he later died.

 

 

 

Corporal Melvin Mauldin's decorations

 

 

Melvin in training

 

Melvin (left) in Vietnam

 

Melvin's mother is presented with his medals

 

 

 

Melvin High School graduation

 

 

 

 

BURIAL
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Williamston, Anderson County, South Carolina

 

Grave marker for Melvin Mauldin

Photo by Cathy Martin from the Find A Grave website

 

 

 

Flowers at Melvin's burial

 

Flowers at Melvin's burial

 

Flowers at Melvin's burial

 

Melvin's mother at his gravesite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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