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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Peter Charles Moore.

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PETER CHARLES MOORE

Private · U.S. Army

November 7, 1939 – April 23, 1964

Service record

Peter Charles Moore, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on April 23, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 49

Position of Panel 1E 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radio Operator (05B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
November 7, 1939
Home of record
Lebanon, Pennsylvania (Lebanon County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 23, 1964
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1964. In April 1964, 12 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 49

From Lebanon

All 14 names 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.