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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregory L Miller.

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GREGORY L MILLER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 4, 1946 – December 20, 1966

Service record

Gregory L Miller, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 65

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
155 AVN CO 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
Born
April 4, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 20, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 65

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.