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Submitted: 8/19/21 • Approved: 8/20/21 • Last Updated: 8/23/21 • R448591-G0-S3
LIEUTENANT
Killed in Battle of Okinawa (World War II)
Buried at Sea
Ike Henry Moore was born on September 14, 1909 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas to Isaac Henry Moore and Sallie Marie Jefferson. He is the brother of Ruth Moore and Tom Dent Moore.
Mr. Moore was student of local history specializing in early Texas newspapers and was the First Director of the San Jacinto Museum of History. He was an Author, Teacher in the University of Texas and Hillsboro Junior College systems, and the State Supervisor of the Texas Historical Records Survey.
He enlisted in the United States Navy, around 1943. After his military training at Corpus Christi he served in the Naval District's Educational Service Office.
He was commissioned a lieutenant (junior grade) in the Naval Reserve and trained at the Naval Officers Training School in Hollywood, Florida, and then at the Naval Communication School at Harvard University. In December of 1944 he was assigned to an escort vessel under Adm. William F. Halsey. Ike took leave from his job at the San Jacinto Monument Museum in Houston, Texas after he received his assignment.
Five months later, serving as a communications officer in the Pacific aboard an escort carrier, he lost his life in a Japanese kamikaze attack.
A military honor funeral was held at sea in May 1945. Moore was survived by one son.
He has a memorial marker in Uvalde, Texas and a marker in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas.
"LOVING SON, BROTHER, HUSBAND AND FATHER"
Contributed on 8/19/21
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