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MILES BRADLEY HEDGLIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 4, 1949 – March 25, 1969
Service recordMiles Bradley Hedglin, of Mercer, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 36
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Mercer, Pennsylvania (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1969; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 174 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 36
- JEWELL ROBERT GREENSpecialist Four · March 25, 1969
- JOSEPH CLAYTON HAGASergeant First Class · March 25, 1969
- EARL MARSHALL HAYESPrivate First Class · March 25, 1969
- FREDERICK DANIEL HERRERASergeant First Class · March 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WALTER EVANS BROWN JRPrivate · Panel 28W, Line 33
- JEWELL ROBERT GREENSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 36
- FREDERICK DANIEL HERRERASergeant First Class · Panel 28W, Line 36
- PHILLIP EDMOND LYNCHPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 37
- RICHARD DEAN ROBERTSSergeant First Class · Panel 28W, Line 40
From Mercer
- CARL JAMES FORRESTERSergeant · February 1, 1966
- ALBERT KRISUNAS CHRISTYStaff Sergeant · March 17, 1966
- DAVID ELROY BAUNSpecialist Four · June 30, 1966
- RICHARD LEE MCNEISHPrivate First Class · October 24, 1967
- MERLE ROBERT HIGGINSSergeant · June 5, 1969
- MAURICE EDWIN GARRETT JRCaptain · October 22, 1971
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.