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MOORE, THOMAS
Name: Thomas Moore
Rank/Branch: E6/US Air Force
Unit:
Date of Birth: 09 December 1929
Home City of Record: Baton Rouge LA
Date of Loss: 31 October 1965
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 10400N 1070000E (YS224805)
Status (in 1973): Prisoner of War
Category: 1
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ford Truck
Other Personnel in Incident: Charles Dusing; Samuel Adams (both POW)
REMARKS: 6512 DIC-ON PRG DIC LIST
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. Three of the individuals involved in this
incident are SSgt. Samuel Adams, SSgt. Charles Dusing and TSgt. Thomas Moore.
On November 2, 1965, while being taken to a detention camp, one of the four
POWs, whose identity is not part of public record, managed to escape and return
to U.S. control. It was reported that Samuel Adams had been shot during the
same escape that freed the fourth American prisoner, 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.