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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Vincent Moran.

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VINCENT MORAN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 19, 1946 – March 28, 1969

Service record

Vincent Moran, of Iselin, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 72

Position of Panel 28W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 19, 1946
Home of record
Iselin, New Jersey (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 28, 1969
Age
22
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

62 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1969; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 72

Same unit, same day

From Iselin

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.