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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carl Jerome Miller.

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CARL JEROME MILLER

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

June 27, 1946 – December 8, 1968

Service record

Carl Jerome Miller, of Manila, Arkansas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 67

Position of Panel 37W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
2 CA GRP COM ACT 3 MAF
Born
June 27, 1946
Home of record
Manila, Arkansas (Mississippi County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 8, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 67

From Manila

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.