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Hal Moore

1922 - 2017

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Harold Gregory Moore Jr. (February 13, 1922 – February 10, 2017) was a United States Army lieutenant general and author. As a lieutenant colonel, he commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965, during the Vietnam War. The battle was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, co-authored by Moore and made into the film We Were Soldiers in 2002, which starred Mel Gibson as Moore. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hal Moore is the 1,534th most popular military personnel (up from 1,684th in 2019), the 5,494th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,679th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hal Moore ranks 1,534 out of 2,058. Before him are Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, Justin, Ingvar, Nicanor, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, and Woldemar Hägglund. After him are Adolphe Niel, Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Alfred Saalwächter, Alberto Bayo, and Richard Heidrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Hal Moore ranks 237. Before him are Dorothy Dandridge, Chairil Anwar, Joseph Mermans, Gerda Steinhoff, Richard Kiley, and Carmen McRae. After him are Sinan Hasani, Július Torma, Marlyn Meltzer, Barbara Hale, Juan Carlos Lorenzo, and Blaga Dimitrova. Among people deceased in 2017, Hal Moore ranks 269. Before him are Alois Mock, Octavio Lepage, Spencer Johnson, Shyama, Kurt Moll, and Qian Qichen. After him are Ricardo Piglia, Daniil Granin, Mark White, Ilya Glazunov, Oleg Vidov, and Holger Czukay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hal Moore ranks 5,494 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Jencks (1939), Robert Herman (1914), William R. Orthwein (1881), Charles E. Brady Jr. (1951), Noah Beery Jr. (1913), and Jorja Fox (1968). After him are Marianne Moore (1887), Johnny Hayes (1886), Robert Cummings (1910), George Duke (1946), Christopher Atkins (1961), and Jerry Hall (1956).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Hal Moore ranks 92. Before him are Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Anthony McAuliffe (1898), Walton Walker (1889), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), Courtney Hodges (1887), and James Longstreet (1821). After him are Nathanael Greene (1742), Nelson A. Miles (1839), James M. Gavin (1907), Doris Miller (1919), Robert Gould Shaw (1837), and Tommy Franks (1945).

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