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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene L Manselle III.

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EUGENE L MANSELLE III

Private · U.S. Army

May 19, 1947 – June 19, 1968

Service record

Eugene L Manselle III, of Hartford, Connecticut, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 56W · Line 36

Position of Panel 56W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 19, 1947
Home of record
Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 19, 1968
Age
21
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 56W, Line 36

Same unit, same day

From Hartford

All 40 names from Hartford →

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.