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JAMES ELDRIE MILLIGAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 20, 1947 – August 15, 1967
Service recordJames Eldrie Milligan, of Pleasure Ridge Park, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 15, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- September 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Pleasure Ridge Park, Kentucky (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 15, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 114
- ROBERT ALLEN KOLASLance Corporal · August 15, 1967
- RONALD HARRY LOFTONPrivate First Class · August 15, 1967
- EARL WAYNE LONGPrivate First Class · August 15, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPH MCCORMACKStaff Sergeant · August 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JERRY EUGENE BUTTSPrivate First Class · Panel 24E, Line 111
- VALENTINE DANIEL UNCAPHERPrivate First Class · Panel 24E, Line 115
From Pleasure Ridge Park
- KENNETH LEN SHUFFITTSpecialist Four · January 12, 1967
- ROBERT EVERETT ASHHospitalman · July 9, 1968
- GARY HOLDEN SMITHLance Corporal · October 9, 1968
- LEON ANDREW HUNTStaff Sergeant · June 18, 1972
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.