[2] Moore was fluent in French and served as an instructor in the Department of Modern Languages at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, from 1925 to 1929.

[3] In the early days of World War II, Colonel Moore commanded the 164th Infantry Regiment on Guadalcanal.

[2] During the Korean War, under General Matthew Ridgway, one of his classmates from the West Point class of 1917, he led the IX Corps in Operations Thunderbolt, Killer and Ripper.

[2] The account of his service to America was entered into the United States Congressional Record by Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith.

[citation needed] He was buried in the cemetery of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River in New York, his body being one of the first to be repatriated to American soil during a war.