Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 11-Jan-1931
Hometown: Salamanca, New York
Marital status: Married to Betty R. Mohr, two sons, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 22-Jan-1968
Incident date: 19-Apr-1968
Date of casualty: 25-Apr-1968
Age at death: 37
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Victor Allen Mohr died from gunshot wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight. Individual was admitted to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, on 19 Apr 1968 and placed on the seriously injured (SI) list and later expired.
Two Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Victor Allen Mohr
SGT Cary Joseph Smith
Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Shelby Memory Gardens, Calera, Alabama, USA
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ARMY COMMENDATION MEDAL
WITH VALOR DEVICE
POSTHUMOUS
SPECIALIST FOUR ALLEN MOHR
19 APRIL 1968
B TROOP, 1st SQUADRON
11TH ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT
Specialist Four Mohr distinguished himself on 19 April 1968, while serving as a Machine Gunner with Troop B, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, on a reconnaissance in force mission north of Phouc Vinh, Vietnam. As his lead vehicle began penetrating the jungle to one side of a roadway, it and the column came under heavy enemy fire. When two crew-members dismounted to aid the wounded, Specialist Mohr courageously exposed himself to enemy aim in order to place devastating machine gun fire on the insurgents. While manning his weapon, Specialist Mohr was mortally wounded by enemy small arms fire. Specialist Four Mohr’s heroic actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself unit and the United States Army.
Headquarters, 9th Infantry Division General Orders No. 4768 (16 June 1968)