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MILES JOSEPH MCLOUGHLIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 13, 1945 – March 21, 1967
Service recordMiles Joseph McLoughlin, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 13, 1945
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; three of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 10
- ROBERT LEE KASTERCorporal · March 21, 1967
- PHILIP AARON MCNINCHPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- GARLAND ANDREW NEWHOUSESpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- DANIEL JAMES NEWMAN JRCorporal · March 21, 1967
- GERMAN LEE NICHOLSONSpecialist Five · March 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ARTHUR BROWNPrivate · Panel 16E, Line 130
- GERMAN LEE NICHOLSONSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 10
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.