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MANUEL CASARES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 30, 1949 – June 6, 1968
Service recordManuel Casares, of Tehachapi, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 26
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- August 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Tehachapi, California (Kern County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 26
- JOSEPH L BROWN JRPrivate · June 6, 1968
- PAUL EDWARD BURGARDPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- LEE RANDALL BUSHPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- WILLIAM ROGER CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
From Tehachapi
- GILBERT LOUIS MITCHELLLieutenant Commander · March 6, 1968
- WILLIAM T ANDERSEN JRSergeant First Class · July 1, 1968
- ROBERT PAUL COTESergeant · May 21, 1970
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.