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WILLIAM LEWIS MOORE
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 3, 1931 – March 3, 1968
Service recordWilliam Lewis Moore, of Charleston, South Carolina, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 54
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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- January 3, 1931
- Home of record
- Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 42E, Line 54
- DAVID WALTER KNOUSEPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- DIMITRIOUS CORTEZ MCCALLPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- DONALD A NAHODIL JRPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- HENRY NORFLEET JRCorporal · March 3, 1968
From Charleston
- CLARENCE LARRY MOORERCaptain · December 12, 1963
- THEODORE RICHARDSONSpecialist Four · October 2, 1965
- CHARLES GALE DUSINGChief Master Sergeant · October 31, 1965
- EARL CLAYTON GRAHAMSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- HAROLD T EDMONDSON JRCorporal · January 30, 1966
- JAMES BRADLEYSergeant · February 5, 1966
- BURTON ALEXANDER BLANTONCaptain · March 30, 1966
- WALTER H ANDERSONPrivate First Class · April 16, 1966
- RANDOLPH CLINTON SCOTTPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- HAROLD MACK JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
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.