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THOMAS WOODROW MOORE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 10, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordThomas Woodrow Moore, of Ellicott City, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- February 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Ellicott City, Maryland (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 25
- JOHNNY MEDINAPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- RUSSELL E MILBERRYPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- ROGER BERTHA MILLSSergeant · January 31, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM MOINESTERLieutenant (junior grade) · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROGER SLETTEN CAMERONWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 1
- DWIGHT A DEDRICKWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 5
- WILLIAM BRADLEY DUNCANWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 7
- AUBREY GOFF JRSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 10
- FRED KAWAILANI MAS HATADASpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 13
- KENNETH EUGENE HOTCHKISSPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 16
- DONALD LAMAR SMITHSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 36
- BERNARD DAVID THOMPSON JRLieutenant Colonel · Panel 36E, Line 39
- JAMES MATHEW VRBA JRMajor · Panel 36E, Line 41
- CHARLES AUGUSTUS YEOMANSPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 44
From Ellicott City
- DAVID BURTON PEGGPrivate First Class · October 29, 1966
- HARRY SAMUEL FITEZ JRPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- GARY W HANNAWarrant Officer 1 · January 31, 1968
- RAYMOND ORITIZ NOVOSODCorporal · October 15, 1969
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.