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MILBERT WALTER HAMILTON
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
March 5, 1944 – October 25, 1969
Service recordMilbert Walter Hamilton, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1969, in Cambodia, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 117
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 5, 1944
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 25, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1969. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 117
- DAVID NELSON HEBERTPrivate First Class · October 25, 1969
- FLORENCIO Q MARQUEZCorporal · October 25, 1969
- CARL EVERETT OLDFIELDPrivate First Class · October 25, 1969
- ROBERT JOHN OLLIKAINENSergeant · October 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DWIGHT JACKSON THORNTONCaptain · Panel 17W, Line 118
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.