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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Dell Moore.

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ROBERT DELL MOORE

Seaman · U.S. Navy

January 7, 1934 – January 14, 1967

Service record

Robert Dell Moore, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 14, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 28

Position of Panel 14E 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
January 7, 1934
Home of record
Colorado Springs, Colorado (El Paso County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 14, 1967
Age
33
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date January 14, 1967; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 28

From Colorado Springs

All 46 names from Colorado Springs →

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.