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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Lee Miller.

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JERRY LEE MILLER

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

August 26, 1939 – July 2, 1967

Service record

Jerry Lee Miller, of Midway Park, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 2, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 109

Position of Panel 22E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
Born
August 26, 1939
Home of record
Midway Park, North Carolina (Onslow County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 2, 1967
Age
27
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; 93 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 109

From Midway Park

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.