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RANDALL BRUCE MILLER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 26, 1949 – December 8, 1969
Service recordRandall Bruce Miller, of Danville, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Danville, West Virginia (Boone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1969; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 38
- JIMMY LEE FOMBYPrivate First Class · December 8, 1969
- JOHN ALBERT HANCOCKCorporal · December 8, 1969
- JOSEPH EDWARD HARDEEPrivate First Class · December 8, 1969
- ROBERT LEE HATCHERSpecialist Four · December 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH BRUCE SESSUMSSergeant · Panel 15W, Line 40
From Danville
- RICHARD ELSWORTH VINCENTSergeant · March 9, 1968
- JACKIE LEE DICKENSCaptain · June 2, 1969
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.