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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Dean Milling.

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LARRY DEAN MILLING

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 13, 1948 – April 6, 1969

Service record

Larry Dean Milling, of Boyd, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 27W · Line 26

Position of Panel 27W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 13, 1948
Home of record
Boyd, Wisconsin (Chippewa County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 6, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 27W, Line 26

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.