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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stewart Robbins Moody.

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STEWART ROBBINS MOODY

Captain · U.S. Army

August 1, 1945 – January 3, 1970

Service record

Stewart Robbins Moody, of Claremont, California, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on January 3, 1970, in Sa Dec Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 122 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 122

Position of Panel 15W 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Aircraft Maintenance Officer (4823)
Unit (as recorded)
3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
Born
August 1, 1945
Home of record
Claremont, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 3, 1970
Age
24
Province
Sa Dec
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date January 3, 1970; two of them were lost in Sa Dec Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 122

Same unit, same day

From Claremont

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.