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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Victor Raymond Miller.

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VICTOR RAYMOND MILLER

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 13, 1945 – April 6, 1968

Service record

Victor Raymond Miller, of Beach City, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48E · Line 30

Position of Panel 48E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 13, 1945
Home of record
Beach City, Ohio (Stark County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 6, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48E, Line 30

Same unit, same day

From Beach City

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.