 Despite the victory in Europe, Moore wondered about the possibility of fighting in the Pacific War against Japan, though the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August ended speculation of such combat.To return troops home, the government instituted a points system in which the most decorated troops leaving first.With his medals and service time of nine months and fourteen days without a break, he was among the first to return to the United States, doing so aboard the USS "Excelsior"; the ship was named after the Excelsior Mills in Union, South Carolina near Moore's hometown of Spartanburg.