The Wall › Panel 31W › Pennsylvania › Dennis Keith Millison
DENNIS KEITH MILLISON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 1, 1948 – February 26, 1969
Service recordDennis Keith Millison, of Sharon, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 26, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 66
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Sharon, Pennsylvania (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 26, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while Operation Dewey Canyon was under way. In Operation Dewey Canyon (22 January–18 March 1969) the 9th Marines struck North Vietnamese base areas in the Đa Krông and A Shau valleys, the last major Marine offensive 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.
Read the history
Also on Panel 31W, Line 66
- DAVID WOOD DENLINGERPrivate First Class · February 26, 1969
- RICHARD LINCOLN DESPERLance Corporal · February 26, 1969
- JIM LEE DICKSONPrivate First Class · February 26, 1969
- ALBERT ERSKINEPrivate First Class · February 26, 1969
From Sharon
- PAUL J HESS JRFirst Lieutenant · November 11, 1966
- TERRANCE EDWIN KLARICLance Corporal · May 11, 1967
- JESSE JAMES COONSergeant · April 23, 1968
- DONALD STEPHEN MIHORDINSpecialist Four · November 27, 1968
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.