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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 Donald Harvey Moses.

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DONALD HARVEY MOSES

Fireman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

August 4, 1945 – July 9, 1966

Service record

Donald Harvey Moses, of Rahway, New Jersey, served as a Fireman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 9, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 12

Position of Panel 9E 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
Fireman Apprentice (FA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Born
August 4, 1945
Home of record
Rahway, New Jersey (Union County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 9, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 12

From Rahway

All 14 names from Rahway →

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.