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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 Gannon Clark Milby JR.

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GANNON CLARK MILBY JR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 20, 1947 – June 10, 1968

Service record

Gannon Clark Milby JR, of Easton, Maryland, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1968, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 51W · Line 41

Position of Panel 51W 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Born
March 20, 1947
Home of record
Easton, Maryland

Casualty

Date of death
June 10, 1968
Age
21
Added to the Wall
2015

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 51W, Line 41

From Easton

Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2015, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.