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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 Michael Aubrey Moorman.

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MICHAEL AUBREY MOORMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 11, 1946 – August 7, 1967

Service record

Michael Aubrey Moorman, of Thaxton, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 7, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 88

Position of Panel 24E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Born
January 11, 1946
Home of record
Thaxton, Virginia (Bedford (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 7, 1967
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date August 7, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 88

From Thaxton

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.