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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 Milton Warren Smith.

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MILTON WARREN SMITH

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

August 18, 1944 – December 29, 1967

Service record

Milton Warren Smith, of Belt, Montana, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 97

Position of Panel 32E 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Born
August 18, 1944
Home of record
Belt, Montana (Cascade County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 29, 1967
Age
23
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 97

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.