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DAVID PAUL MANNERS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 7, 1947 – May 21, 1966
Service recordDavid Paul Manners, of Durant, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 21, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 97
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Durant, Oklahoma (Bryan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1966; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 97
- ANTONIO PAUL MACIMINIOLance Corporal · May 21, 1966
- HAROLD MACK JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- PETER FRANCIS MEADPetty Officer Third Class · May 21, 1966
- PETER RICHARD NIEMCZUKPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
From Durant
- ALBERT EUGENE COLLINSSergeant · March 5, 1968
- TOMMY EMERSON GISTMajor · May 18, 1968
- ARLAND JASPER JONESLance Corporal · July 5, 1969
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.