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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 Manfred Bertold Miller.

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MANFRED BERTOLD MILLER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 30, 1945 – October 19, 1965

Service record

Manfred Bertold Miller, of Boulder, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 19, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 126

Position of Panel 2E 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
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
October 30, 1945
Home of record
Boulder, Colorado (Boulder County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 19, 1965
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date October 19, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 126

From Boulder

All 13 names from Boulder →

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.