Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 3-Feb-1947
Hometown: Traverse City, Michigan
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 20-Sep-1966
Start of tour: 8-Mar-1967
Incident date: 19-Feb-1968
Date of casualty: 19-Feb-1968
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Melvin Udelson Wanageshik died as the result of wound received when he engaged hostile force in firefight while on combat operation.
Location of fatality: Long An, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Traverse City, Michigan, USA
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