3RD MARDIV

3RD ENG BN

Manuel Aguiar Soares

Lance Corporal
3RD ENG BN, 3RD MARDIV
United States Marine Corps
09 November 1946 - 08 October 1968
Fall River, MA
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Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for Manuel Aguiar Soares

26 Jan 2004

He was a young Marine who never got the chance. He was killed on his first time out. I remember it like it was yesterday, I was there when he got hit, he died days later. Unfortunately we in his platoon never got the opportunity to find out how unique of a person he was.

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9th Marines

LCpl Manuel A. Soares, a combat engineer assigned to the 3rd Engineer Battalion, was in the field with the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, at the time of his death.




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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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