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CHARLES RAY MOOMEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 7, 1943 – March 26, 1968
Service recordCharles Ray Moomey, of Taylorville, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 7, 1943
- Home of record
- Taylorville, Illinois (Christian County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 38
- MAURICE MOOREPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- ROBERT WESLEY MORRISPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- JAMES MYRON MOSERSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- ROGER LEWIS OLSONHospitalman · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROSS APPLEGATESpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 27
- RICHARD LEWIS BELINGEPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 29
- JOHN PATRICK GIDDINGSSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 33
- JOHNNIE DARRIEL HARRISPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 34
- GARY MARTIN REEDYSpecialist Five · Panel 46E, Line 40
- JAMES FRANCIS STOLINSKISergeant · Panel 46E, Line 42
From Taylorville
- ROBERT EUGENE GELONEK JRPrivate First Class · February 21, 1967
- CHARLES GREGORY ROSSCorporal · March 3, 1968
- RUSSELL LARNED ENGS IIISergeant · May 9, 1968
- JOSEPH ARNOLD HILLLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- WILLIAM MILLER VITALEFirst Lieutenant · November 29, 1968
- MICHAEL JOSEPH SINCAVAGESpecialist Four · February 6, 1969
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.