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## News Release

# Army Soldier MIA From Vietnam War Is Identified (Moore)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced todaythat the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have beenidentified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Staff Sgt. Maurice H. Moore, of Baltimore, Md., U.S. Army. He will be buried inBaltimore on Dec. 4.

Representatives from the Army met with Moore’s next-of-kin to explain the recovery andidentification process, and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretaryof the Army.

On May 12, 1968, North Vietnamese forces overran the Kham Duc Special Forces campand its surrounding observation posts in Quang Nam-Da Nang Province (formerly Quang TinProvince), South Vietnam. Moore was one of the 17 U.S. servicemen unaccounted-for after thesurvivors evacuated the camp. Search and recovery efforts at the site in 1970 succeeded inrecovering remains of five of the 17 men. A sixth man was returned alive during OperationHomecoming in 1973 after having been held prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese.

Between 1993 and 2006, joint U.S./Vietnam teams, led by the Joint POW/MIAAccounting Command (JPAC), conducted eight investigations and four excavations in thevicinity of the camp site. The team interviewed former North Vietnamese officers and soldierswho participated in the battle. Some recalled seeing the bodies of U.S. servicemen near one ofthe observation posts, and U.S. eyewitness accounts placed Moore near the post.

During an excavation conducted in 1998, two U.S. servicemen who survived the battleaccompanied JPAC to help locate the observation posts, but found no evidence of human remains.Later excavations conducted in the area yielded human remains, identification media and personaleffects for Moore and several other Army soldiers, including Maj. Frederick J. Ransbottom andStaff Sgt. William E. Skivington, Jr., who were identified in 2006.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists fromJPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in theidentification of the remains.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

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