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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 George Monroe Moore.

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GEORGE MONROE MOORE

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 28, 1924 – January 23, 1968

Service record

George Monroe Moore, of Evansville, Indiana, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 19

Position of Panel 35E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Tactical Communitions Chief (31G)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 28, 1924
Home of record
Evansville, Indiana (Vanderburgh County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 23, 1968
Age
43
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 19

Same unit, same day

From Evansville

All 56 names from Evansville →

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.