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RALPH WILLIAM MILBOURNE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 21, 1939 – August 19, 1968
Service recordRalph William Milbourne, of Purcellville, Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 5
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
- Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical (Nbc) Specialist (54E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 21, 1939
- Home of record
- Purcellville, Virginia (Loudoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 5
- VICTOR DAVID TRUJILLOStaff Sergeant · August 19, 1968
- JOHN VINCENT VEARAFirst Sergeant · August 19, 1968
- ARTHUR WATSONSpecialist Four · August 19, 1968
- JONAS BENFORDPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID LEE ADAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 48W, Line 51
- WILLIAM JOSEPH DEORIO JRCorporal · Panel 48W, Line 53
- JAMES JOSEPH HEFNERPrivate First Class · Panel 48W, Line 55
- VICTOR DAVID TRUJILLOStaff Sergeant · Panel 47W, Line 5
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.