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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alfred Judson Force Moody.

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ALFRED JUDSON FORCE MOODY

Brigadier General · U.S. Army

March 4, 1918 – March 19, 1967

Service record

Alfred Judson Force Moody, of Hamden, Connecticut, served as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 49. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 113

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Brigadier General (BG)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 4, 1918
Home of record
Hamden, Connecticut (New Haven County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 19, 1967
Age
49
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 113

Same unit, same day

From Hamden

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.