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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 Thomas Michael Moore.

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THOMAS MICHAEL MOORE

Seaman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

October 25, 1946 – November 1, 1966

Service record

Thomas Michael Moore, of Tacoma, Washington, served as a Seaman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 1, 1966, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 7

Position of Panel 12E 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 Apprentice (SA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
October 25, 1946
Home of record
Tacoma, Washington (Pierce County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 1, 1966
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1966; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 7

From Tacoma

All 79 names from Tacoma →

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.