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Birth: 9/2/1932
Laurel Bloomery, Johnson County, Tennessee
Death: 1/3/1951 Uijongbu, Korea
Son of Wiley C. Mosier and Ellen Riddle
Citation:
The Distinguished Service Cross is awarded to Corporal Billy Mosier, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action on January 3, 1951, while serving as an aidman with the Medical Company, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, in the vicinity of Uijongbu, Korea. When the defensive positions of Company A were attacked by an estimated enemy battalion, supported by heavy mortar fire, he voluntarily exposed himself to the intense enemy fire to administer aid to wounded soldiers. While treating a wounded man he heard a call for aid coming from a soldier approximately five hundred yards away. With complete disregard for his personal safety, he moved through the enemy fire to the wounded man and administered first aid as small arms fire struck all around him. When the enemy snipers continued to cover the area with fire, making it impossible for him to evacuate the wounded man, he picked up the wounded soldier's rifle and moved forward to crest of a hill from which he placed accurate fire on the enemy's position, killing several of them. He continued to fire on the enemy's positions until he was killed by an enemy sniper.
HQ Eighth US Army Korea; General Orders No. 136 (March 12, 1951)
The military gravestone notes Corporal Mosier's Distinguished Service Cross on the last line (DSC) along with 2 Purple Heart medals (2 PH)
Camp Mosier, a small deactivated U.S. Army base in Uijongbu, South Korea was named for Army hospital corpsman Corporal Billy Mosier in recognition of and to honor his heroic actions during the early phases of the Korean War. Camp Mosier was the home of the 43rd M*A*S*H hospital (of movie and television fame) frrom the early 1950's until it was moved further south in 1976 when the U.S. began to decrease it's presence along the DMZ. While Hollywood identified the hospital as the 4077th M*A*S*H, historical records confirm that the actual Army hospital that the movie and television series was based on was the 43rd MASH. The 43rd M*A*S*H was finally fully deactivated in 1997.
Source: Jim Williams
Page added March 11, 2006 and updated December 30, 2007
