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JAMES VAN NESS MULLER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
February 23, 1947 – October 31, 1967
Service recordJames Van Ness Muller, of Bloomingburgh, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 31, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 104
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Oh-13/Oh-23 Helicopter Repairman (67M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- February 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Bloomingburgh, New York (Sullivan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 31, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 105 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 104
- ROGER LEE HUBBARDPrivate First Class · October 31, 1967
- STEPHEN JAY KOTTMajor · October 31, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD MILLERSpecialist Four · October 31, 1967
- RALPH JOHN PARKER JRCorporal · October 31, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FLOYD IRWIN ROBINSONSpecialist Four · Panel 28E, Line 105
- MICHAEL J SEADORFSpecialist Four · Panel 28E, Line 105
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.