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Marines move through the streets of Huế near the end of the 26-day battle, February 1968.
Marines move through the streets of Huế near the end of the 26-day battle, February 1968. Photo: USMC Archives, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charlie Reuben Miller JR.

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CHARLIE REUBEN MILLER JR

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

October 6, 1949 – February 18, 1968

Service record

Charlie Reuben Miller JR, of Bossier City, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40E · Line 10

Position of Panel 40E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 6, 1949
Home of record
Bossier City, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
February 18, 1968
Age
18
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

85 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1968; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. 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 40E, Line 10

From Bossier City

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.