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CHARLES EDWARD MARISKANISH
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 7, 1948 – May 9, 1968
Service recordCharles Edward Mariskanish, of Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 27
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- December 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Barnesboro, Pennsylvania (Cambria County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 27
- CHARLES ALLISON LOTTPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- RONALD JOE MARKELLance Corporal · May 9, 1968
- MARVIN HENRY MARTINPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- MICHAEL MARK MICUNEKPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
From Barnesboro
- FREDERICK ANDREW BUZAFirst Lieutenant · May 20, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.