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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Olen Miller.

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JAMES OLEN MILLER

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

June 10, 1940 – February 6, 1967

Service record

James Olen Miller, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 6, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 130

Position of Panel 14E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utilitiesman (UT)
Born
June 10, 1940
Home of record
Colorado Springs, Colorado (El Paso County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 6, 1967
Age
26
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 130

From Colorado Springs

All 46 names from Colorado Springs →

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.