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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Christopher J J Miller.

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CHRISTOPHER J J MILLER

Captain · U.S. Army

July 4, 1932 – October 20, 1966

Service record

Christopher J J Miller, of Westminster, Maryland, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on October 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 92

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 4, 1932
Home of record
Westminster, Maryland (Carroll County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 20, 1966
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 55 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 92

From Westminster

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.