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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Charles Moore JR.

The Wall › Panel 32E › North Carolina › William Charles Moore JR

WILLIAM CHARLES MOORE JR

Private · U.S. Army

August 3, 1943 – December 21, 1967

Service record

William Charles Moore JR, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1967, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 38

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supplyman (76A)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 19 ENG BN USARV
Born
August 3, 1943
Home of record
Fayetteville, North Carolina (Cumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 21, 1967
Age
24
Province
Kien Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “A CO 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 38

From Fayetteville

All 84 names from Fayetteville →

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.