THOMAS MOORE
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CMS - Air Force - Regular
Rank/Branch: E6/US Air Force
36 year old Married, Caucasian,
Male
Born on Dec 09, 1929
Home City of Record: BATON ROUGE,
LOUISIANA
His tour of duty began on Dec
31, 1965
Casualty was on Dec 31, 1965
Date of Loss: 31 October 1965
Country of Loss: BIEN HOA, SOUTH
VIETNAM
Loss Coordinates: 10400N 1070000E
(YS224805)
Hostile, died captured
GROUND CASUALTY
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ford Truck
Status (in 1973): Prisoner of
War
Body was not recovered
Religion
BAPTIST
Panel 03E - - Line 9
Other Personnel in Incident:
Charles Dusing; Samuel Adams (both POW), Jasper
Page, escapee.
Category: 1
REMARKS: 6512
DIC-ON PRG DIC LIST
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.
SYNOPSIS:
On October 31, 1965, four U.S. Air Force personnel were captured
while traveling by truck from
Vung Tau to Saigon. This incident occurred on
Route 15 at grid coordinates
YS224805, just on the border of Binh Hoa and
Gia Dinh Provinces of South
Vietnam. The individuals involved in this
incident are SSgt. Samuel Adams,
SSgt. Charles Dusing, TSgt. Thomas Moore,
and TSgt, Jasper Page.
On November 2, 1965, while being
taken to a detention camp, Jasper Page,
managed to escape and return
to U.S. control. It was reported that Samuel
Adams had been shot during the
same escape that freed Page, but a defector
identified Adams' photo as a
prisoner at a later date. CIA's analysis of
this identification has been
inconclusive. The names of all three appeared
on the died in captivity list
furnished by the Provisional Revolutionary
Government (PRG) in 1973 at
the Paris Peace Accords. The list reflected that
they had died during December
1965, but no details were given.
When 591 Americans were released
at the end of the war in 1973, Adams, Dusing
and Moore were not among them;
their names were on a list. No bodies were
returned to their families,
even though the Vietnamese clearly know where to
find the three men. Since that
time, Vietnam has doled out handfuls of remains
as the political atmosphere
seemed appropriate, but Adams, Dusing and Moore
remain unaccounted for.
The three are among nearly 2500
Americans who remain missing in Indochina.
Unlike "MIA's" from other wars,
most of these men can be accounted for.
Tragically, over 8000 reports
concerning Americans still in Southeast Asia have
been received by the U.S. since
the end of the war. Experts say that the
evidence is overwhelming that
Americans were left behind in enemy hands. It's
time we brought our men home.
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