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ROBERT WAKE MILES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 23, 1947 – October 3, 1968
Service recordRobert Wake Miles, of Hays, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 3, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 70
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Hays, North Carolina (Wilkes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 3, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date October 3, 1968; five of them were lost in Long An Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42W, Line 70
- JOHN WILLIAM LUCIERPrivate First Class · October 3, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD MANNCaptain · October 3, 1968
- JAMES LEE MERRICK JRLieutenant · October 3, 1968
- DONALD LEE MONTGOMERYSergeant · October 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM LEE MCLAUGHLINCorporal · Panel 42W, Line 68
- DONALD LEE MONTGOMERYSergeant · Panel 42W, Line 70
- VICTOR M ORNELAS-ARELLANOSpecialist Four · Panel 42W, Line 72
- CALVIN MOORE PERKINSSpecialist Four · Panel 42W, Line 72
From Hays
- RICHARD JAMES HALLCorporal · March 6, 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.