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Home Town St.Albans
Last Address St.Albans
Date of Passing Sep 20, 2007
Location of Interment Cunningham Memorial Park Cemetery - St. Albans, West Virginia
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Dalton S. Moore, 85, of St. Albans, West Virginia passed away Thursday, September 20, 2007 in VA Medical Center in Huntington. He was born October 10, 1921 in South Charleston, a son of the late James and Osie Nettles Moore. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his half brothers, David Moore, and Dennis Tanner, and half sister, Bobbi Moore. Dalton was employed with Union Carbide for over 10 years, then went to work for WV Steel where he retired after 28 years of service as a Sales Executive. Dalton graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. After graduation he became a talented artist and illustrator. He used his talents to enhance his professional and personal life. He was a member of Highlawn Baptist Church, St. Albans. He was a US Marine in WWII in the South Pacific. He left school to join the US Marines before Pearl Harbor. He was in the first landing on Guadalcanal and served as a machine gunner throughout the campaign which was one of the most historic battles in American history. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Phyllis, son, Merritt Evans Moore and his wife Elaine, grandson, Matthew Evans Moore, all of St. Albans, his sister, Dottie Woods, of Cincinnati, OH, and several nieces and nephews.
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He had many friends here in West Virginia
8November1942 The 2nd Raider Battalion began it's 150 Mile perimeter patrol on Guadalcanal.
Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)/Battle of Tulagi (including First Savo)
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The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, between the forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied (mainly United States (U.S.) Marine) ground forces. It took place from 7–9 August 1942 on the Solomon Islands, during the initial Allied landings in the Guadalcanal campaign.
In the battle, U.S. Marines, under the overall command of U.S. Major General Alexander Vandegrift, successfully landed and captured the islands of Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo among which the Japanese Navy had constructed a naval and seaplane base. The landings were fiercely resisted by the Japanese Navy troops who, outnumbered and outgunned by the Allied forces, fought and died almost to the last man.
At the same time that the landings on Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo were taking place, Allied troops were also landing on nearby Guadalcanal, with the objective of capturing an airfield under construction by Japanese forces. In contrast to the intense fighting on Tulagi and Gavutu, the landings on Guadalcanal were essentially unopposed. The landings on both Tulagi and Guadalcanal initiated the six-month long Guadalcanal campaign and a series of combined-arms battles between Allied and Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands area.