 After training at Camp Van Dorn in Mississippi, he went to New Jersey's Fort Dix, where he was assigned to the 90th Infantry Division, D Company, 359th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1st Platoon as a machine gunner.As a member of the 1st Platoon, Moore's machine gun was .30 caliber water-cooled, described as a heavy weapon.Moore and his group were not expecting to participate in the Normandy landings in 1944.