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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Millard Wade Farbro.

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MILLARD WADE FARBRO

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 3, 1948 – November 24, 1967

Service record

Millard Wade Farbro, of Vinita, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 77

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
February 3, 1948
Home of record
Vinita, Oklahoma (Craig County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1967
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 77

Same unit, same day

From Vinita

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.