Jim Edwin Moshier

Vietnam War
Unit3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
RankCorporal U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service FromBakersfield California
Date of DeathJune 11 1967
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Corporal Moshier was a member of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. On June 11, 1967, he was a passenger in a Boeing Sea Knight Cargo Helicopter (CH-46A) inserting a seven man team about eleven miles northwest of Dong Ha, South Vietnam, when his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. His remains were recovered on August 15, 2005 and identified on April 5, 2007. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.