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JOHN WARREN MANNING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 23, 1942 – July 7, 1969
Service recordJohn Warren Manning, of Granby, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 77
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 23, 1942
- Home of record
- Granby, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 7, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 77
- RONALD EUGENE NEWELLSergeant · July 7, 1969
- JAMES LOYD OHARASergeant · July 7, 1969
- BILLY EARL PERRYSpecialist Four · July 7, 1969
- DAVID WAYNE SHAFFNERPrivate First Class · July 7, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FRANK LEVATOSpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 76
- THOMAS JEFFERSON SIZEMOREStaff Sergeant · Panel 21W, Line 78
- DANNY KEITH YELLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 79
From Granby
- ROBERT EARL BRIDGESAirman Second Class · June 17, 1967
- MICHAEL GIDVILASSpecialist Four · September 7, 1967
- MICHAEL STUART NYMANStaff Sergeant · November 24, 1967
- JOHN STEWART TAYLORPrivate · May 20, 1969
- JAMES ARTHUR BURNSFirst Lieutenant · September 13, 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.