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RONALD MANNING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 21, 1949 – June 15, 1970
Service recordRonald Manning, of Calhoun, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Calhoun, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1970; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 56
- ROBERT LEE HENDERSONSergeant First Class · June 15, 1970
- ROBERT MARTIN KUNER JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1970
- KENNETH WAYNE MARTINSergeant · June 15, 1970
- MARK SYLVESTER BEHRENTPrivate First Class · June 16, 1970
Same unit, same day
- KURTIS LANE GAYNORPrivate First Class · Panel 9W, Line 55
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.