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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Stuart Miller.

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EUGENE STUART MILLER

Captain · U.S. Army

August 15, 1944 – May 23, 1970

Service record

Eugene Stuart Miller, of Warren, Michigan, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 86

Position of Panel 10W 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
August 15, 1944
Home of record
Warren, Michigan (Macomb County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 23, 1970
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1970; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 86

Same unit, same day

From Warren

All 41 names from Warren →

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.