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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Johnson Marcus Milligan.

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JOHNSON MARCUS MILLIGAN

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

September 16, 1944 – January 25, 1968

Service record

Johnson Marcus Milligan, of East Brewton, Alabama, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 34

Position of Panel 35E 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. Army
Rank
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
B TRP 7 SQD 17 CAV 1 AVN BDE
Born
September 16, 1944
Home of record
East Brewton, Alabama (Escambia County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 25, 1968
Age
23
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1968; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 34

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.