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JAMES WALTER MANTHEI
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
May 23, 1950 – March 21, 1971
Service recordJames Walter Manthei, of Kewaskum, Wisconsin, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1971, in Laos, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 64
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 23, 1950
- Home of record
- Kewaskum, Wisconsin (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1971. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while Operation Lam Son 719 was under way. In Lam Son 719 (February–March 1971), South Vietnamese troops drove into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, carried and supported by U.S. helicopters and aircraft; more than 100 U.S. helicopters were lost.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 64
- BILLIE JAYE MARLINGPrivate First Class · March 21, 1971
- LARRY MAURICE MASONPrivate · March 21, 1971
- CLAUDIUS AUGUSTUS SMALLSergeant · March 21, 1971
- ANDRE BARRY TIMSPrivate First Class · March 21, 1971
Same unit, same day
- DAVID CLYDE LANCASTERWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4W, Line 63
From Kewaskum
- EDWIN JAMES FICKLERCaptain · January 17, 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.