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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Harrison Moore.

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JAMES HARRISON MOORE

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 3, 1933 – March 19, 1969

Service record

James Harrison Moore, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 81

Position of Panel 29W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
July 3, 1933
Home of record
Latrobe, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 19, 1969
Age
35
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

61 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1969; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 81

From Latrobe

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.