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RICHARD DWAYNE MILTON
Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
August 11, 1930 – April 7, 1972
Service recordRichard Dwayne Milton, of Winner, South Dakota, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on April 7, 1972, in Laos, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 132 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 132
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- August 11, 1930
- Home of record
- Winner, South Dakota (Tripp County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1972
- Age
- 41
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1972. In April 1972, 106 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 2W, Line 132
- WILLIAM ROY PEARSONSergeant · April 6, 1972
- HOWARD BURDETTE LULL JRMaster Sergeant · April 7, 1972
- LARRY FLETCHER POTTSCaptain · April 7, 1972
- RICHARD SIMPSON SCHOTTLieutenant Colonel · April 7, 1972
- ROBERT ALAN STERNWarrant Officer 1 · April 7, 1972
From Winner
- PETER GEORGE HEINZMANStaff Sergeant · October 28, 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.