Leonard, the son of Julius A. Moore (deceased) and Hazel L. Moore of Hanover IN enlisted in the US Marine Corps on October 14, 1963 in Louisville KY. He arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to Company G, 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF.
During Operation DESOTO at Company OP (Out Post) near Lam Binh Hamlet in Duc Pho District, a man tripped an AP (Anti-Personnel) mine rigged to a SFD (Secondary Firing Device) believed to have been a 105 mm artillery round causing an explosion wounding three Marines. A Medevac was requested to evacuate the wounded, within minutes a UH1E was hovering over the LZ. As the wounded were brought to be loaded there was a flash and a huge detonation, the UH1E exploded into a ball of fire with debris scattering skyward and a huge smoking crater were the helicopter had been. Marines rushed to help the victims of the explosion when a second explosion occurred within fifty meters of the first that blew the dirt skyward wounding additional men with shrapnel. All the crew members of the Medevac helicopter were killed; six Marines, one Navy Corpsman, and another Corpsman, seriously wounded and evacuated would succumb to his wounds two days later.
Casualties:
Robert Francis Cote
Ernest Bryan Cupp
Bert Guerra III
Kenneth Martin Kessinger
Leonard Irvin Moore
Richard Karl Bruno Toepritz
Glenn Truman Bristow
Michael Monroe Kauffman II
During Operation DESOTO at Company OP (Out Post) near Lam Binh Hamlet in Duc Pho District, a man tripped an AP (Anti-Personnel) mine rigged to a SFD (Secondary Firing Device) believed to have been a 105 mm artillery round causing an explosion wounding three Marines. A Medevac was requested to evacuate the wounded, within minutes a UH1E was hovering over the LZ. As the wounded were brought to be loaded there was a flash and a huge detonation, the UH1E exploded into a ball of fire with debris scattering skyward and a huge smoking crater were the helicopter had been. Marines rushed to help the victims of the explosion when a second explosion occurred within fifty meters of the first that blew the dirt skyward wounding additional men with shrapnel. All the crew members of the Medevac helicopter were killed; six Marines, one Navy Corpsman, and another Corpsman, seriously wounded and evacuated would succumb to his wounds two days later.
Casualties:
Robert Francis Cote
Ernest Bryan Cupp
Bert Guerra III
Kenneth Martin Kessinger
Leonard Irvin Moore
Richard Karl Bruno Toepritz
Glenn Truman Bristow
Michael Monroe Kauffman II
Leonard, the son of Julius A. Moore (deceased) and Hazel L. Moore of Hanover IN enlisted in the US Marine Corps on October 14, 1963 in Louisville KY. He arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to Company G, 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF.
During Operation DESOTO at Company OP (Out Post) near Lam Binh Hamlet in Duc Pho District, a man tripped an AP (Anti-Personnel) mine rigged to a SFD (Secondary Firing Device) believed to have been a 105 mm artillery round causing an explosion wounding three Marines. A Medevac was requested to evacuate the wounded, within minutes a UH1E was hovering over the LZ. As the wounded were brought to be loaded there was a flash and a huge detonation, the UH1E exploded into a ball of fire with debris scattering skyward and a huge smoking crater were the helicopter had been. Marines rushed to help the victims of the explosion when a second explosion occurred within fifty meters of the first that blew the dirt skyward wounding additional men with shrapnel. All the crew members of the Medevac helicopter were killed; six Marines, one Navy Corpsman, and another Corpsman, seriously wounded and evacuated would succumb to his wounds two days later.
Casualties:
Robert Francis Cote
Ernest Bryan Cupp
Bert Guerra III
Kenneth Martin Kessinger
Leonard Irvin Moore
Richard Karl Bruno Toepritz
Glenn Truman Bristow
Michael Monroe Kauffman II
During Operation DESOTO at Company OP (Out Post) near Lam Binh Hamlet in Duc Pho District, a man tripped an AP (Anti-Personnel) mine rigged to a SFD (Secondary Firing Device) believed to have been a 105 mm artillery round causing an explosion wounding three Marines. A Medevac was requested to evacuate the wounded, within minutes a UH1E was hovering over the LZ. As the wounded were brought to be loaded there was a flash and a huge detonation, the UH1E exploded into a ball of fire with debris scattering skyward and a huge smoking crater were the helicopter had been. Marines rushed to help the victims of the explosion when a second explosion occurred within fifty meters of the first that blew the dirt skyward wounding additional men with shrapnel. All the crew members of the Medevac helicopter were killed; six Marines, one Navy Corpsman, and another Corpsman, seriously wounded and evacuated would succumb to his wounds two days later.
Casualties:
Robert Francis Cote
Ernest Bryan Cupp
Bert Guerra III
Kenneth Martin Kessinger
Leonard Irvin Moore
Richard Karl Bruno Toepritz
Glenn Truman Bristow
Michael Monroe Kauffman II
