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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank David Moorman.

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FRANK DAVID MOORMAN

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 8, 1948 – January 23, 1969

Service record

Frank David Moorman, of Clifton, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on January 23, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 66

Position of Panel 34W 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 8, 1948
Home of record
Clifton, New Jersey (Passaic County)

Casualty

Date of loss
January 23, 1969
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
First reported
Missing in action

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1969; seven of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 66

Same unit, same day

From Clifton

All 16 names from Clifton →

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.