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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Worth Millard.

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CHARLES WORTH MILLARD

Chief Warrant Officer 4 · U.S. Army

June 8, 1933 – April 19, 1968

Service record

Charles Worth Millard, of Wilson, North Carolina, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 4 in the U.S. Army. He was lost on April 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 50E · Line 50

Position of Panel 50E 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
Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CW4)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 8, 1933
Home of record
Wilson, North Carolina (Wilson County)

Casualty

Date of loss
April 19, 1968
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
First reported
Missing in action

Context · from the records

What was happening

67 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 50E, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From Wilson

All 19 names from Wilson →

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.