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ROY WALDO MILLER JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 25, 1941 – November 2, 1968
Service recordRoy Waldo Miller JR, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 9
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- July 25, 1941
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 9
- JACOB MCKIESpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
- MARVIN BURNETT MULLIS JRPrivate First Class · November 2, 1968
- PHILIP LARRY NICHOLSSecond Lieutenant · November 2, 1968
- RAYMOND FRANKLIN ORR JRCorporal · November 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDGAR DUNKIN JRSergeant First Class · Panel 39W, Line 7
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 1967
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.