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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 Frank Leonard Miller III.

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FRANK LEONARD MILLER III

Captain · U.S. Army

December 7, 1936 – September 30, 1965

Service record

Frank Leonard Miller III, of Montgomery, Alabama, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on September 30, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 100

Position of Panel 2E 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
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 7, 1936
Home of record
Montgomery, Alabama (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 30, 1965
Age
28
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1965. In September 1965, 150 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 100

Same unit, same day

From Montgomery

All 50 names from Montgomery →

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.