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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 Marvin Ray Miller.

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MARVIN RAY MILLER

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 9, 1950 – June 27, 1969

Service record

Marvin Ray Miller, of Riverside, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 24

Position of Panel 21W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
January 9, 1950
Home of record
Riverside, California (Riverside County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 27, 1969
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 122 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 24

Same unit, same day

From Riverside

All 48 names from Riverside →

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.