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The trench line of the 1st Battalion, 26th Marines at Khe Sanh, 1968.
The trench line of the 1st Battalion, 26th Marines at Khe Sanh, 1968. Photo: Michael Braukus Collection, USMC Archives, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lloyd Whitfield Moore.

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LLOYD WHITFIELD MOORE

Hospitalman · U.S. Navy

March 28, 1948 – February 25, 1968

Service record

Lloyd Whitfield Moore, of Wilmington, North Carolina, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41E · Line 25

Position of Panel 41E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Hospitalman (HN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
March 28, 1948
Home of record
Wilmington, North Carolina (New Hanover County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 25, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “B CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.

Also on Panel 41E, Line 25

Same unit, same day

From Wilmington

All 24 names from Wilmington →

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.