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MANUEL TORRES LOPEZ
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 25, 1926 – June 27, 1968
Service recordManuel Torres Lopez, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1968, in Kien Phong Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 6
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 25, 1926
- Home of record
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1968
- Age
- 41
- Province
- Kien Phong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Phong Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 54W, Line 6
- CHARLES A GORDONPrivate First Class · June 27, 1968
- BENNIE EDWARD HODGESSergeant First Class · June 27, 1968
- JON WALTER LAYTON IIIFirst Lieutenant · June 27, 1968
- DAVID WILLIAM ROBERTSONSergeant · June 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JON WALTER LAYTON IIIFirst Lieutenant · Panel 54W, Line 6
From Oshkosh
- ORLAND ORRIN BEARWALDPrivate First Class · September 8, 1965
- KENNETH BRUCE HAWLEYCorporal · August 12, 1966
- PAUL EDWARD MANSKEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS DOBISHPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- DONALD ROY LASTSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT FISCHERSergeant · July 23, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN MEHNEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- JAMES JEROME LINDSergeant · January 5, 1968
- CHRISTIAN ALAN LANGENFELDPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- STEVEN LYNN ZOBELLance Corporal · May 21, 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.