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A CH-47 Chinook lifts off on a resupply mission during Operation Junction City, April 1967.
A CH-47 Chinook lifts off on a resupply mission during Operation Junction City, April 1967. Photo: SSG Howard C. Breedlove, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arnez Franklin Miller JR.

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ARNEZ FRANKLIN MILLER JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 16, 1943 – January 8, 1967

Service record

Arnez Franklin Miller JR, of Carlisle, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 127

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
January 16, 1943
Home of record
Carlisle, Arkansas (Lonoke County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 8, 1967
Age
23
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.

He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 127

Same unit, same day

From Carlisle

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.