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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hans Lothar Mills.

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HANS LOTHAR MILLS

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

February 1, 1948 – May 18, 1969

Service record

Hans Lothar Mills, of Sterling, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24W · Line 45

Position of Panel 24W 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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 1, 1948
Home of record
Sterling, Illinois (Whiteside County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 18, 1969
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

81 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1969; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24W, Line 45

Same unit, same day

From Sterling

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.