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RUSSELL E MILBERRY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 28, 1948 – January 31, 1968

Service record

Russell E Milberry, of Union Bridge, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 36E · Line 25

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Service

Branch: U.S. Army
Rank: Private First Class (PFC)
Service: Regular
Occupation: Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded): 101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born: January 28, 1948
Home of record: Union Bridge, Maryland (Carroll County)

Casualty

Date of death: January 31, 1968
Age: 20
Province: Quang Tri
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; 24 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.

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Also on Panel 36E, Line 25

JOHNNY MEDINAPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
ROGER BERTHA MILLSSergeant · January 31, 1968
ROBERT WILLIAM MOINESTERLieutenant (junior grade) · January 31, 1968
THOMAS WOODROW MOORESpecialist Four · January 31, 1968

Same unit, same day

CLYDE B BRAUGHTON JRSergeant · Panel 35E, Line 88
HOWARD EARL BUTTONSergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 89
PATRICK CYRIL CARTNEYSpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 1
ALFRED PATRICK L COFFROTHSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 3
SAM HARRIS GALLOWAYSecond Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 9
GIDEON PICHA JOHNSONSergeant First Class · Panel 36E, Line 18
HELMUT GUSTAV LAKASZUSStaff Sergeant · Panel 36E, Line 20
JAMES PERRY LANIERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 20
JOSEPH VIETO MARRONESpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 24
MICHAEL ALAN POGUEPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 31
JAMES STANCELL JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 36E, Line 38
JAMES LEWIS WAGESSergeant First Class · Panel 36E, Line 38
VERNON CHARLES WILDERSPINSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 42
STEVEN WILLIAM ZIEGLERStaff Sergeant · Panel 36E, Line 44

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.