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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Richard Lee Miller.

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RICHARD LEE MILLER

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

August 11, 1949 – June 11, 1969

Service record

Richard Lee Miller, of Plankinton, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1969, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 22W · Line 24

Position of Panel 22W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Watercraft Engineer (61C)
Unit (as recorded)
523 ENG CO 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
Born
August 11, 1949
Home of record
Plankinton, South Dakota (Aurora County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1969
Age
19
Province
Vinh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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64 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 22W, Line 24

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.