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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 Jack Donald Moore JR.

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JACK DONALD MOORE JR

Airman · U.S. Navy

October 16, 1951 – March 14, 1971

Service record

Jack Donald Moore JR, of Conway, South Carolina, served as an Airman in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 14, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 46

Position of Panel 4W 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
Airman (AN)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Airman (AN)
Unit (as recorded)
FASU DANANG USNAVFORV
Born
October 16, 1951
Home of record
Conway, South Carolina (Horry County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 14, 1971
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date March 14, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 46

From Conway

All 15 names from Conway →

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.