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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Edward Miladin.

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RAYMOND EDWARD MILADIN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 29, 1946 – November 9, 1967

Service record

Raymond Edward Miladin, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 60

Position of Panel 29E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 29, 1946
Home of record
Kenosha, Wisconsin (Kenosha County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 9, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 60

Same unit, same day

From Kenosha

All 30 names from Kenosha →

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.