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MILLARD LAMAR PALMER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 22, 1947 – April 28, 1968
Service recordMillard Lamar Palmer, of Clarkesville, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 42
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Clarkesville, Georgia (Habersham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 42
- EDGAR DEWITT PAGESpecialist Six · April 28, 1968
- RICHARD WARREN POWELL JRPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
- MELVIN PRYOR SRSergeant First Class · April 28, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM ROMEROCaptain · April 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JERRY WAYNE BRYANStaff Sergeant · Panel 52E, Line 34
- JOHN BERNARD GINGERYStaff Sergeant · Panel 52E, Line 37
- ROBERT ERIE HOLEYFIELDPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 52E, Line 38
- JOHN WAYNE LANKFORDCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 39
- JOHN THOMAS INTIHARPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 40
- STEVEN MICHAEL MCARTHURSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 40
- ROBERT LOUIS MCDUFFYPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 41
- VALENTINE AMBROSE OCHSCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 41
- RICHARD WARREN POWELL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 42
- MELVIN PRYOR SRSergeant First Class · Panel 52E, Line 42
- MICHAEL JOSEPH SAUNDERSPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 43
- RONNIE GLYNN SLAYPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 44
From Clarkesville
- CHARLES WAYNE SIMSCorporal · February 28, 1966
- LARRY PAUL JONESCorporal · May 13, 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.