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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leslie Don Moses.

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LESLIE DON MOSES

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 25, 1946 – November 4, 1966

Service record

Leslie Don Moses, of Wetumka, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 23

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
71 ASLT HEL CO 14 AVN BN AMER DIV
Born
April 25, 1946
Home of record
Wetumka, Oklahoma (Hughes County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 4, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 23

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.