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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Francis McManus.

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ROBERT FRANCIS MCMANUS

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 30, 1947 – August 12, 1968

Service record

Robert Francis McManus, of Wayne, New Jersey, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 12, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48W · Line 1

Position of Panel 48W 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. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
January 30, 1947
Home of record
Wayne, New Jersey (Passaic County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 12, 1968
Age
21
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

44 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Long An Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48W, Line 1

Same unit, same day

From Wayne

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.