This collection contains correspondence and other materials pertaining to Maj. Norman A. Moore, USA, during the Second World War.

Major Norman Allen Moore, United States Army (10/23/1904 - 9/26/1967) was born in Liverpool, England and moved to Ford City, Pennsylvania when he was four or five years old. He served with Company C, 112th Infantry of the Pennsylvania National Guard when it was activated and trained at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi, Camp Livingston, Louisiana, Camp Maxey, Texas and Fort Benning, Georgia. During the war he served with the 1st Army, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division and commanded the 3rd Battalion through Europe from October 1944 until the end of the Second World War. According to Maj. Moore's own account, he landed in Swansea, Wales in October 1944 and then landed in La Havre, Normandy, France to take command of the 3rd BN. They reached the front lines at Losheimergraben, Belgium on November 12.

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