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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 Uldis Jack Malmanis.

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ULDIS JACK MALMANIS

Corporal · U.S. Army

August 8, 1931 – October 9, 1968

Service record

Uldis Jack Malmanis, of Elmhurst, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41W · Line 36

Position of Panel 41W 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
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
August 8, 1931
Home of record
Elmhurst, New York (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 9, 1968
Age
37
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1968. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 41W, Line 36

From Elmhurst

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.