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EDWARD MANOWSKI
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 5, 1946 – February 3, 1968
Service recordEdward Manowski, of Rowland Heights, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- August 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Rowland Heights, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 10
- HOI TIN LAUPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- JAMES EDGAR MALONEPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- JAMES KEVIN MCCANNLance Corporal · February 3, 1968
- STEPHEN BROOKS MURDENFirst Lieutenant · February 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK ANTHONY AZZARITO JRPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 3
- ROBERT IRVING BALLARDFirst Lieutenant · Panel 37E, Line 3
- MICHAEL BERNARD CERVERASpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 4
- HAROLD LEROY GRAYPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 7
- HAROLD S HIGGINBOTHAMPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 8
- EDWARD WENDELL HUGHEYPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 8
- HOI TIN LAUPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 10
- DAVID QUINONESPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 12
- EUGENE DURWOOD TREADWELLSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 15
From Rowland Heights
- JOSE MUNOZ JRPrivate First Class · September 28, 1970
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.