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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Buckson Moore.

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JAMES BUCKSON MOORE

Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army

January 6, 1931 – October 10, 1967

Service record

James Buckson Moore, of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on October 10, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 85

Position of Panel 27E 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
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (2162)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 6, 1931
Home of record
Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (Delaware County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 10, 1967
Age
36
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1967; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 85

Same unit, same day

From Ridley 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.