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JAMES CHARLES MOORE JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
July 7, 1940 – April 27, 1969
Service recordJames Charles Moore JR, of Spencer, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 27, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 66
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- July 7, 1940
- Home of record
- Spencer, New York (Tioga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 66
- PAUL JAMESON NEELYSergeant · April 27, 1969
- RICHARD ARLEN OMANCorporal · April 27, 1969
- RICHARD DUANE ORLANDOLance Corporal · April 27, 1969
- FRANK JOSEPH PROKOPLance Corporal · April 27, 1969
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.