Leo J. Mangold

Philadelphia Memorial Panel: Panel 19

National Memorial Panel / Row: West 30 / 27

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1947

Neighborhood: Feltonville

High School: Cardinal Dougherty High School

Street: N. 3rd Street

Branch of Service: Marine Corps

Rank: PFC

Date of Casualty: 03-Mar-1969

Province of Casualty: Quang Tri

The 22-year-old Cardinal Dougherty High School graduate worked with computers for the UNIVAC division of Sperry Rand Corp. when be was drafted into the Marine Corps in May 1968. The oldest of five children, he was good with electronics and machinery, and built an amplifier for a younger brother�s guitar. Mangold was a rifleman assigned to Company C of the 1st Battalion, 4th Marinas, 3rd Marine Division. In Vietnam. He died in Quang Tiren Province on March 3, 1969, the day he had returned to duty from a previous wound. Survivors included his parents, two brothers and twin sisters.