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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Malcolm Edward Millican.

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MALCOLM EDWARD MILLICAN

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

January 5, 1936 – November 17, 1965

Service record

Malcolm Edward Millican, of Orlando, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 17, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 86

Position of Panel 3E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Cryptographic Systems Technician, Ima (6422)
Born
January 5, 1936
Home of record
Orlando, Florida (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 17, 1965
Age
29
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

161 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1965; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 86

From Orlando

All 93 names from Orlando →

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.