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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Bruce Millhouse.

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KENNETH BRUCE MILLHOUSE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 16, 1948 – December 18, 1968

Service record

Kenneth Bruce Millhouse, of Spenard, Alaska, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 41

Position of Panel 36W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
January 16, 1948
Home of record
Spenard, Alaska

Casualty

Date of death
December 18, 1968
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Spenard

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.