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RICHARD L MILLER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 18, 1948 – January 15, 1968
Service recordRichard L Miller, of Angola, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Angola, Indiana (Steuben County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 55
- DALE ARTHUR MILESPrivate First Class · January 15, 1968
- JAMES BENSON RUTLEDGEPrivate First Class · January 15, 1968
- MICHAEL JOHN RYANSpecialist Five · January 15, 1968
- THOMAS ROGER WATTSSergeant · January 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TIMOTHY ROBERT KESSLERSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 54
From Angola
- HERMAN EUGENE HANTZFirst Lieutenant · June 3, 1968
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.