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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 Milton Bernard Luster.

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MILTON BERNARD LUSTER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 6, 1946 – September 13, 1966

Service record

Milton Bernard Luster, of Gray Court, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10E · Line 92

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 6, 1946
Home of record
Gray Court, South Carolina (Laurens County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 13, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

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What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

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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.