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MANUEL MOORE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 2, 1941 – April 30, 1968
Service recordManuel Moore, of Hackensack, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 2, 1941
- Home of record
- Hackensack, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 18
- JOHN CHARLES MATTHEISENSpecialist Four · April 30, 1968
- PAUL LYNN MILLERSergeant · April 30, 1968
- ROGER DALE MILLSPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- ROGER WAYNE MORGANCorporal · April 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SEEBER J KELLYPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 16
- JEROME RAWLINGSSpecialist Four · Panel 53E, Line 22
- ROBERT LEE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 26
From Hackensack
- JOHN D MORGANSergeant · June 30, 1966
- ANTHONY JOSEPH GADDA JRPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- ROBERT PATRICK GANDILPrivate First Class · December 18, 1966
- VINCENT JAMES WEEDO JRPrivate First Class · January 28, 1967
- JOHN COYLESpecialist Four · March 29, 1967
- HAROLD JEROME DILLARDLance Corporal · May 25, 1967
- JOHN HAROLD TOMENYSpecialist Five · May 22, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL KOZAKSecond Lieutenant · May 11, 1970
- JOHN BENJAMIN ABBATEMARCOSergeant · May 13, 1970
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.