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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Lee Miller.

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LARRY LEE MILLER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 7, 1951 – June 5, 1971

Service record

Larry Lee Miller, of Edgerton, Missouri, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 5, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 67

Position of Panel 3W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
April 7, 1951
Home of record
Edgerton, Missouri (Platte County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 5, 1971
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1971; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 67

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.