MC MANUS, TRUMAN JOSEPH

Name: Truman Joseph McManus
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/E3
Unit: C CO 1 BN 12 MAR 3 MAR DIV
Date of Birth: 17 August 1949
Home City of Record: MANSFIELD CT
Date of Loss: 05 June 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 164848 North  1070931 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.  2020

REMARKS:

CACCF/EXPLOSIVE DEVICE/QUANG TRI

No further information available at this time.
 

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02/2020

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LCPL TRUMAN JOSEPH MCMANUS

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Lance Corporal Truman Joseph McManus, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Connecticut, served with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. On June 5, 1968, while on a combat mission in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, Lance Corporal McManus took a direct hit from an enemy explosive device. His fellow Marines searched for him following the explosion, but his remains could not be located. Further attempts to locate them were unsuccessful. Today, Lance Corporal McManus is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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