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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Manolo Briones Agnes.

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MANOLO BRIONES AGNES

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

January 18, 1948 – July 4, 1971

Service record

Manolo Briones Agnes served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 4, 1971, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 99

Position of Panel 3W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Electrician's Mate (EM)
Born
January 18, 1948

Casualty

Date of death
July 4, 1971
Age
23
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1971; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In July 1971, 118 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 99

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.