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This picture is of him in in his Marine uniform WW ll. Taken in San Diego California while he was going to boot camp in Camp Pendalton California.

This is my father Victor H. Moore. He was born in Fornfelt, Scott County, Missouri now called Scott City, Scott County, Missouri. He later lived in Noble, Illinois and Olney, Illinois both in Richland County. He worked in the shoe factory in Olney, in Spitler's grocery store in Sumner Illinois and for the Newspaper in Sumner as a photographer. When he decided to go somewhere to have a job later he went to Joliet, Illinois to work in a powder factory there and while there joined the Marines when I was 11 months old. He trained at Camp Pendalton in California and surved in Iwo Jima and Saipan. ...more