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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glenn Willard Miller.

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GLENN WILLARD MILLER

Constructionman · U.S. Navy

September 17, 1949 – April 7, 1970

Service record

Glenn Willard Miller, of Wilmington, Delaware, served as a Constructionman in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 7, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 104

Position of Panel 12W 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. Navy
Rank
Constructionman (CN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Construction Electrician (CE)
Born
September 17, 1949
Home of record
Wilmington, Delaware (New Castle County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 7, 1970
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1970; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12W, Line 104

From Wilmington

All 49 names from Wilmington →

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.