MOORE, JAMES RODNEY
Name: James Rodney Moore
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/E4
Unit: A CO 9 ENG BN 1 MAR DIV
Date of Birth: 16 August 1947
Home City of Record: ONTARIO NY with NARA CACCF
Naples, NY in PMSEA
Date of Loss: 28 February 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 155900 North 1081600 East
Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: GROUND
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0604
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020
REMARKS:
CACCF/QUANG NAM
No further information available at this time.
12/23/2015
Long road home for mother of missing soldier
The mother of a Vietnam combat Marine missing in action
nearly 50 years ago still flies the black and white
POW-MIA flag and holds close the memory ...
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01/2020
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Lance Corporal (LCpl) James Rodney Moore, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps from New York, was a member of Company A of the 9th Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division. On February 28, 1967, he was assigned to provide flanking security for engineer equipment on Route 13 near Da Nang, South Vietnam. He disappeared from his position. A search for LCpl Moore found no sign of him, and he remains unaccounted for. After the incident, the Marine Corps promoted LCpl Moore to the rank of Staff Sergeant (SSgt). Today, Staff Sergeant Moore is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual's case to be in the analytical category of Active Pursuit.
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