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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Earl Miller.

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ROBERT EARL MILLER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 12, 1943 – November 19, 1967

Service record

Robert Earl Miller, of St Augustine, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 30

Position of Panel 30E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
513 ENG CO USARV
Born
December 12, 1943
Home of record
St Augustine, Florida (St Johns County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 19, 1967
Age
23
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

77 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 30

From St Augustine

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.