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PAUL EDWARD MANSKE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 21, 1946 – May 13, 1967
Service recordPaul Edward Manske, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 109
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 109
- STEPHEN MICHAEL LEEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- CARL FREDRICK LOUVRINGPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- JOHN WAYNE LOVEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- KENNETH CHARLES MARLEYPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS LEROY HUBBARDPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 107
- KENNETH CHARLES MARLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 109
From Oshkosh
- ORLAND ORRIN BEARWALDPrivate First Class · September 8, 1965
- KENNETH BRUCE HAWLEYCorporal · August 12, 1966
- 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
- MANUEL TORRES LOPEZSergeant First Class · June 27, 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.