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FRANCIS EVERETT MANUEL
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 28, 1929 – June 15, 1968
Service recordFrancis Everett Manuel, of Bluemont, Virginia, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 28, 1929
- Home of record
- Bluemont, Virginia (Loudoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 38
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 57W, Line 29
- ROBERT FRANCISCO LOPEZPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- GERALD MCCLINTOCKPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- WILLIAM IVAN MERCERPetty Officer Second Class · June 15, 1968
- RICHARD BRIAN MURPHYLance Corporal · June 15, 1968
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.