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JAMES HENRY MILICH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 20, 1942 – February 7, 1968
Service recordJames Henry Milich, of Cornwall On Hudson, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 7
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tubine Engine Drive/Generator Repairer (52F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- June 20, 1942
- Home of record
- Cornwall On Hudson, New York (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
136 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 7
- JAMES LARRY MCCOYCorporal · February 7, 1968
- TIMOTHY DAVID MCHUGHPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE MOORESergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
- JAMES LESLIE MORELANDSergeant First Class · February 7, 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.