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MANUEL SOTO FLORES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 23, 1946 – January 31, 1968
Service recordManuel Soto Flores, of Redkey, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 8
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
- Ammunition Specialist (55B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Redkey, Indiana (Jay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 66 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 8
- LOUIS HAROLD FISCHERSergeant · January 31, 1968
- GERALD LAMPLEY FITTSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- MICHAEL THOMAS FITZGERALDHospitalman · January 31, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSEPH FLAHIVE JRCaptain · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT CHARLES BIEGELChief Warrant Officer 3 · Panel 35E, Line 87
- DAVID RICKEY CARSONSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 1
- WILLIAM JOSEPH STEFFESSpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 39
- DAVID RALPH WILSONFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 43
From Redkey
- LARRY WAYNE BARRETTPrivate First Class · April 3, 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.