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MILLARD FRANKLIN MEADOWS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 5, 1948 – February 8, 1967
Service recordMillard Franklin Meadows, of Boonville, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 9
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)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Boonville, Missouri (Cooper County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 8, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1967; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 15E, Line 9
- CARL FOSTERSpecialist Four · February 8, 1967
- STEVEN MICHAEL GOLDSBOROCorporal · February 8, 1967
- HARRY LEE JAMES JRCorporal · February 8, 1967
- GERRY WAYNE LAWSONSpecialist Four · February 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KEITH ALLEN CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 8
- JOSEPH STEVEN MEISBURGERSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 10
From Boonville
- ROBERT WAYNE MOOREPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- ROBERT EUGENE JENRYPrivate First Class · October 12, 1969
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.