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DEAN MOORE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 6, 1932 – November 22, 1967
Service recordDean Moore, of Big Spring, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 22, 1967, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 61
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Chemical Demolitions Specialist (55E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 191 ORD DET 6 ORD BN 1 LOG CMD
- Born
- April 6, 1932
- Home of record
- Big Spring, Texas (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 22, 1967
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “191 ORD DET 6 ORD BN 1 LOG CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 61
- JAMES ARTHUR WATSONPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
- JEROME PAUL WEBERCorporal · November 21, 1967
- THOMAS BARRY ALLENSpecialist Four · November 22, 1967
- SHELDON DON BOWLERPrivate · November 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PAUL BLOUNT MCKINLEYSpecialist Six · Panel 30E, Line 64
From Big Spring
- AUGUSTIN CHAVEZ PAREDEZSergeant · November 17, 1965
- LEWIS MCCOY THOMASPrivate First Class · April 14, 1966
- INZAR WILLIAM RACKLEY JRLieutenant Colonel · October 18, 1966
- RICHARD ALLEN SPANGLERSpecialist Five · November 5, 1966
- EDDIE DEAN HOLLANDSWORTHPrivate First Class · December 17, 1966
- WALTER ROGERS BLALOCKSergeant · March 6, 1967
- GENE VAUGHNLance Corporal · May 2, 1967
- ISMAEL HOLGUINSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- REYNALDO AYALA SANCHEZPrivate First Class · April 22, 1968
- MICHAEL MACKIE OBRIENPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
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.