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GERALD CRAIG MILLER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 25, 1945 – October 21, 1967
Service recordGerald Craig Miller, of Tinley Park, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 21, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 46
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 25, 1945
- Home of record
- Tinley Park, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 21, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date October 21, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 46
- DAVID PAUL KUSYPrivate First Class · October 21, 1967
- FREDERICK MOLEE LOWE JRPrivate First Class · October 21, 1967
- JEFFREY LYNN MORRISPrivate · October 21, 1967
- PETER JAMES PAELESergeant · October 21, 1967
From Tinley Park
- CHARLES JOHN RILEYLance Corporal · October 22, 1966
- CHARLES WILLIAM HOLLWEDELPrivate First Class · July 29, 1967
- ROBERT ALLEN MCALLISTERPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- ROGER LYNN MCRIGHTSpecialist Four · December 5, 1969
- EDWARD JAMES NOVAKPrivate First Class · August 22, 1970
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.