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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Millner.

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MICHAEL MILLNER

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

December 17, 1942 – November 29, 1967

Service record

Michael Millner, of Marysville, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on November 29, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 5

Position of Panel 31E 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 First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
December 17, 1942
Home of record
Marysville, California (Yuba County)

Casualty

Date of loss
November 29, 1967
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Unknown
First reported
Missing in action
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1967; nine of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From Marysville

All 13 names from Marysville →

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.