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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 Leonard Lee Moore.

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LEONARD LEE MOORE

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

November 16, 1928 – August 8, 1968

Service record

Leonard Lee Moore, of Greenville, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 8, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49W · Line 32

Position of Panel 49W 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
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 716 MP BN USARV
Born
November 16, 1928
Home of record
Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 8, 1968
Age
39
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 49W, Line 32

From Greenville

All 52 names from Greenville →

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.