Moore, Larry Richard, PFC

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Final Rank
Private First Class
Last Service Branch
Armor
Last MOS
11E10-Armor Crewman
Last MOS Group
Armor
Primary Unit
1968-1968, 11E10, C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry
Service Years
1967 - 1968
Official/Unofficial US Army Certificates
Order of the Spur
Armor
Private First Class

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Home State
Virginia
Virginia
Year of Birth
1946
 
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Casualty Info
Home Town
Hampton
Last Address
7 Earl Street, Hampton, VA 23669

Casualty Date
Feb 19, 1968
 
Cause
KIA-Killed in Action
Reason
Artillery, Rocket, Mortar
Location
Binh Long (Vietnam)
Conflict
Vietnam War
Location of Interment
Hampton National Cemetery (VA) - Hampton, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates
40E 025/Section H, Site 89
Military Service Number
5 - 2 912 361

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 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
Vietnam Veterans Memorial3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry AssociationThe National Gold Star Family RegistryNational Cemetery Administration (NCA)
  1982, Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Assoc. Page
  1990, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Association
  2010, The National Gold Star Family Registry
  2023, National Cemetery Administration (NCA)


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Tributes from Others posted by IN Olsen, David O, SGT 553
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Combat Infantryman 1st Award

 
 Enlisted/Officer Basic Training
  1967, Basic Training (Fort Knox, KY)
 Unit Assignments
3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lightning)
  1968-1968, 11E10, C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry
  1968-1968, 11E10, 25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lightning)
 Combat and Non-Combat Operations
  1968-1968 Vietnam War/Tet Counteroffensive Campaign (1968)
  1968-1968 Vietnam War/Tet Counteroffensive Campaign (1968)/Operation Saratoga
 Additional Information
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Comments/Citation:

FINAL MISSION OF PFC LARRY R. MOORE - SFC William Jenkins and PFC Larry R. Moore were Armor Crewmen serving with C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division. On February 19, 1968, Jenkins and Moore were killed when their tank was hit by rocket-propelled grenades (RPG’s) in a Viet Cong ambush near Tan Thai Nhu on Route 236, three miles northwest of Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Binh Long Province, RVN. The following is a personal account of the incident by Dwight Birdwell: We were all on (tank) C35. SFC Jenkins was new, as were Moore and Donnelly. I was classified as a Gunner on C35 that day. Jenkins was the TC (Tank Commander), and Moore was the Loader. At a great distance, across a wide-open field, I saw two fast moving balls of fire approaching our tank. I had an M60 (machine gun), which I used to try to shoot down the balls of fire. I failed. One ball of fire hit the top of the tank, killing Moore and Jenkins. We had a significant load of spare ammo in the bustle rack behind the TC and Loader slots, and one of the balls of fire hit that ammo. There was a big blast. Donnelly, to my right, took the brunt of that blast, saving me from serious injury. We were both blown into a ditch nearby. The unit pulled back, leaving us in the ditch. Finally, FSG Delacerda crawled up to the ditch and rescued us. Donnelly was hospitalized for weeks, then returned to C Troop. He was assigned to my C36, and on July 7, 1968, was critically injured by RPG's which, after several years, ended his life. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by David Olsen (August 2018)]


   
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