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OWEN EDWARD MEBUST
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 14, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordOwen Edward Mebust, of Manhattan Beach, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 24
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 527 MP CO 716 MP BN USARV
- Born
- May 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Manhattan Beach, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- 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 “527 MP CO 716 MP BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 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 24
- JOSEPH VIETO MARRONESpecialist Five · January 31, 1968
- JAMES CONRAD MARSHALLCorporal · January 31, 1968
- JOHN FRANCIS MARTINLieutenant Colonel · January 31, 1968
- FRANCIS JOHN MAYER JRPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM MICHAEL SEBASTCorporal · Panel 36E, Line 33
From Manhattan Beach
- MARK EDWARD ROBINSONPrivate First Class · January 26, 1967
- RONALD ALLAN MOORELance Corporal · July 19, 1967
- WILLIAM JOHN TSCHUMIPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- JEFFREY PAUL MORLEYWarrant Officer 1 · February 5, 1968
- ROGER DEAN STEPHENSPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- BRUCE ANDERSON MURRAYPrivate First Class · July 4, 1968
- TIMOTHY JAMES MELVILLEPrivate First Class · September 15, 1968
- ALLEN MICHAEL GRAFFSergeant · May 24, 1969
- STEPHEN AYER JOHNSONPetty Officer Third Class · September 15, 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.