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GALEN LEROY MOORE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 20, 1946 – March 22, 1967
Service recordGalen Leroy Moore, of Newport Beach, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 21
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 4 BN 12 INF 199 LIB
- Born
- March 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Newport Beach, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 21
- GARY MELVIN LADDPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- CALVIN DWIGHT MABERRYPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- ROBERT L MATTHEWSSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- RAUL MONTESSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
From Newport Beach
- MICHAEL ROBERT YOUNGSpecialist Four · March 4, 1966
- JEROME CHARLES SHOMAKERFirst Lieutenant · November 20, 1967
- STEPHEN WAYNE LUCIASpecialist Four · March 14, 1969
- KENT STUART ANDERSONFirst Lieutenant · September 1, 1969
- KRIS MITCHELL PERDOMOSpecialist Four · May 9, 1970
- ROLAND DEAN TROYANOPrivate First Class · February 7, 1971
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.