Ray Edward Moran, Jr
Specialist Four
C TRP, 1ST SQDN, 9TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV Army of the United States Big Bear Lake, California November 26, 1946 to August 09, 1967 RAY E MORAN Jr is on the Wall at Panel 24E, Line 96 |
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SP4 RAY EDWARD MORAN Jr
SP4 RAY EDWARD MORAN Jr
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The official Army Casualty Report states: Individual died as a result of severe burns when the military aircraft on which he was a passenger was hit by hostile automatic weapons fire, crashed and burned. It was also noted on the report that SP4 Moran was listed as missing from 9 August to 17 August when his body was recovered.
Tim Moran was just 10 when the Sheriff's deputy and Army soldiers pulled up to his Big Bear Lake house in August 1967. They were delivering bad news.
Moran's older brother, Ray E. Moran Jr., was missing in action in Vietnam.
On 09 Aug 1967 elements of the 1st Cavalry Division got into a fight at Landing Zone PAT in the Song Re Valley area of Quang Ngai Province. The engagement cost the lives of 11 American soldiers - 6 infantrymen, four helo crewmen, and one artillery observer. The US dead were: D Co, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion
You can read more about this and other battles of the 1st of the 9th Cav here.
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