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WILLIAM HYRAM MOORE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 12, 1949 – February 27, 1969
Service recordWilliam Hyram Moore, of Waverly, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 27, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 83
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- May 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Waverly, Tennessee (Humphreys County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1969; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 83
- BRUNO WALTER DEMATASeaman · February 27, 1969
- RALPH EUGENE NATHANCorporal · February 27, 1969
- DANIEL LEE OVERRIGHTPetty Officer Third Class · February 27, 1969
- ROBERT ELTON PETSCHKE JRPetty Officer Third Class · February 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL JAMES MINORPrivate First Class · Panel 31W, Line 82
From Waverly
- MAXIE R WILLIAMS JRFirst Lieutenant · April 10, 1968
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.