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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Patrick Pearse Manning.

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PATRICK PEARSE MANNING

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

November 19, 1945 – July 30, 1965

Service record

Patrick Pearse Manning, of Kansas City, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 30, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 45

Position of Panel 2E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Administrative Man (0141)
Born
November 19, 1945
Home of record
Kansas City, Missouri (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 30, 1965
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Five names on the Wall carry the date July 30, 1965; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1965, 103 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 45

From Kansas City

All 150 names from Kansas City →

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.