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GREG WENDELL MILLS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 21, 1948 – March 25, 1969
Service recordGreg Wendell Mills, of Mendota, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Mendota, Illinois (La Salle County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 156 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 38
- EDWARDO FLORESPrivate First Class · March 25, 1969
- MICHAEL LEE MALINSpecialist Four · March 25, 1969
- RENE CLARENCE MISCHEAUXCorporal · March 25, 1969
- CHARLES NATHANIEL MOSSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD GREEN JRCorporal · Panel 28W, Line 35
- EDWARD DONALD LAMOREUXPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 37
- JAMES JOHN OSHAUGHNESSYCorporal · Panel 14W, Line 104
From Mendota
- KENNETH KEITH TOWER JRCorporal · August 29, 1968
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.