Moore, Harold Bland
Army Private 1st class

Harold Bland Moore, age 19, from West Virginia, Wood county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On November 23, 2010, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Harold Bland Moore, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Moore entered the U.S. Army from West Virginia and served with Company C of the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On or about November 2, 1950, CPL Moore and members of Company C were supporting elements of the 1st Cavalry Division along the Kuryong River, near Unsan, North Korea, when Chinese Communist Forces struck. The 1st Cavalry Division’s lines collapsed, forcing a withdrawal, and CPL Moore did not survive the action. His body was not recovered at the time. In 2001, a joint U.S./North Korean investigative team excavated a common grave discovered near Unsan, just south of the area where CPL Moore was last seen in combat. The team recovered human remains as well as military equipment, and U.S. analysts eventually identified CPL Moore from these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency