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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Millard Ernest Price JR.

The Wall › Panel 33E › Maryland › Millard Ernest Price JR

MILLARD ERNEST PRICE JR

Warrant Officer · U.S. Marine Corps

November 26, 1925 – January 8, 1968

Service record

Millard Ernest Price JR, of Fruitland, Maryland, served as a Warrant Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 92

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Warrant Officer (WO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Naf Auditing Officer (Ii, Iii) (3410)
Unit (as recorded)
HQ CO HQ BN 3 MARDIV
Born
November 26, 1925
Home of record
Fruitland, Maryland (Wicomico County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 8, 1968
Age
42
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “HQ CO HQ BN 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 92

From Fruitland

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.