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VERNELL HENRY MILLER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 5, 1949 – May 27, 1968
Service recordVernell Henry Miller JR, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 11
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 65W, Line 11
- JOHN RICHARD LINDELCorporal · May 27, 1968
- MICHAEL EUGENE LUDWIGPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- ROBERT GARRY MARXCorporal · May 27, 1968
- ALAN LOUIS MATTESpecialist Four · May 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY JAMES BURKHARDTPrivate First Class · Panel 65W, Line 5
- MICHAEL JAMES FALLONCorporal · Panel 65W, Line 7
- FRANCIS JOE HEFNERSpecialist Four · Panel 65W, Line 9
- KENNETH RAYMOND HELLMANPrivate First Class · Panel 65W, Line 9
- GEORGE RAMIRO SOSAPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 3
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- DANIEL H LAWLERSpecialist Five · May 20, 1967
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- BOBBY LEE BARBERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1967
- CARL LEE HILL JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 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.