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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Milo Clinton Isaacs.

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MILO CLINTON ISAACS

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

May 28, 1930 – October 22, 1970

Service record

Milo Clinton Isaacs, of Temple, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1970, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 16

Position of Panel 6W 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 First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
May 28, 1930
Home of record
Temple, Texas (Bell County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 22, 1970
Age
40
Province
Lam Dong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1970; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 16

Same unit, same day

From Temple

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.