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EUGENE LEWIS MILLER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 10, 1948 – August 21, 1969
Service recordEugene Lewis Miller, of Excelsior Springs, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 88
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- August 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Excelsior Springs, Missouri (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 88
- WILLIAM DAVIS MARTINPrivate First Class · August 21, 1969
- MICHAEL NICHOLAS MASUENWarrant Officer 1 · August 21, 1969
- WILLIAM MIRANDACorporal · August 21, 1969
- MAJOR BOONE MORGAN JRCorporal · August 21, 1969
From Excelsior Springs
- MARVIN L MCCULLOUGH JRCorporal · January 14, 1969
- ROBIN WILLIAM RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
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.