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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Floyd Moye.

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FLOYD MOYE

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

June 5, 1944 – March 10, 1970

Service record

Floyd Moye, of Asbury Park, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 105

Position of Panel 13W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
501 ENG CO 79 ENG BN 20 ENG BDE
Born
June 5, 1944
Home of record
Asbury Park, New Jersey (Monmouth County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1970
Age
25
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1970; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 105

From Asbury Park

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.