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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 Lonnie Dean Moore.

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LONNIE DEAN MOORE

Corporal · U.S. Army

November 14, 1949 – June 3, 1969

Service record

Lonnie Dean Moore, of Lebanon, Oregon, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 55

Position of Panel 23W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
November 14, 1949
Home of record
Lebanon, Oregon (Linn County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 3, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1969; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 55 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 55

Same unit, same day

From Lebanon

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.