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ROGER BERTHA MILLS
Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
August 30, 1946 – January 31, 1968
Service recordRoger Bertha Mills, of Havre De Grace, Maryland, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on January 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 25
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- August 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Havre De Grace, Maryland (Harford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 66 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 25
- JOHNNY MEDINAPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- RUSSELL E MILBERRYPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM MOINESTERLieutenant (junior grade) · January 31, 1968
- THOMAS WOODROW MOORESpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
From Havre De Grace
- LAWRENCE L RINGGOLD JRPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- RAYMOND R HITCHCOCK JRSergeant · June 24, 1968
- FRANKLIN BRADLEY GILBERTSergeant · February 15, 1969
- STANLEY EUGENE MCCREARYPrivate First Class · April 7, 1969
- RONALD ANTHONY SPUDISSpecialist Four · December 11, 1971
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.