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ANDREW LEE MILLS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 17, 1940 – February 20, 1969
Service recordAndrew Lee Mills, of Forrest City, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Powertrain Repairer (68D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Forrest City, Arkansas (St Francis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 44 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 66
- DAVID GLENN KINGSergeant · February 20, 1969
- BILLIE JACK MCCLUREPrivate · February 20, 1969
- DAVID PHILLIP NEISLARLieutenant (junior grade) · February 20, 1969
- EDDIE VAN OLIVER JRLance Corporal · February 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD LAMONT HANDYSpecialist Four · Panel 32W, Line 65
From Forrest City
- PLUMMER WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · December 26, 1966
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.