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JOHNNY RAY MILLS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 8, 1949 – January 25, 1968
Service recordJohnny Ray Mills, of Matoaka, West Virginia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 34
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- April 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Matoaka, West Virginia (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 34
- EARL ADELBERT MAILLOUXCorporal · January 25, 1968
- JOHNSON MARCUS MILLIGANWarrant Officer 1 · January 25, 1968
- JULIUS WILLIAM MORRIS JRSpecialist Five · January 25, 1968
- MICHAEL STEPHEN ROMANOSecond Lieutenant · January 25, 1968
From Matoaka
- DANNY CARL WHITEPrivate First Class · October 15, 1966
- MERRIL HOLTPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
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.