Prisoner of War/Missing in Action North Carolina

MOORE, JERRY LAWRENCE
Cleveland, NC

Name: Jerry Lawrence Moore
Rank/Branch: E3/US Army
Unit: Company C, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
Date of Birth: 08 February 1950 (Statesville SC)
Home City of Record: Cleveland NC
Date of Loss: 16 February 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 112829N 1061715E (XT404687)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Refno: 1386
Other Personnel In Incident: (two others evaded capture)

Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: Jerry Moore joined the Army soon after graduating from high school, taking basic training at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and advanced infantry training at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. He had been in Vietnam only six weeks when he disappeared.

On February 16, PFC Jerry L. Moore's company had established a perimeter at Tay Ninh, South Vietnam. At about 1400 hours, he and two other men from his unit were sent to set up and man an observation post 50 yards outside the perimeter.

Between 1430 and 1435 hours, PFC Moore's company began receiving heavy enemy mortar fire. Jerry's two companions were wounded and started crawling toward bamboo cover, but Jerry, apparently frightened and disoriented, ran in the opposite direction of the company's perimeter. The two companions made it back; Jerry did not. Search efforts were made that afternoon and the next morning without results.

On February 17, search efforts were suspended while B52's bombed the general area. Search operations were then resumed until the 20th, again without success or any sign of Jerry Moore.

Since the war ended in 1973, nearly 10,000 reports relating to Americans missing in Southeast Asia have been received by the U.S. Government. The official policy is that no conclusive proof has been obtained that is current or specific enough to act upon. Detractors of this policy say conclusive proof is in hand, but that the willingness or ability to rescue these prisoners does not exist.

Many government officials state that they believe Americans are being held against their will in Southeast Asia. The question is, who are they, and how will we bring them home? Is one of them Jerry Moore?

Source: POW Network

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