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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel Eugene Moore JR.

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DANIEL EUGENE MOORE JR

Seaman · U.S. Navy

May 6, 1946 – February 22, 1967

Service record

Daniel Eugene Moore JR, of Omaha, Nebraska, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 22, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 75

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
May 6, 1946
Home of record
Omaha, Nebraska (Douglas County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 75

From Omaha

All 96 names from Omaha →

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.