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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 Walter Mille.

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WALTER MILLE

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 17, 1946 – February 7, 1967

Service record

Walter Mille, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 6

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
Unit (as recorded)
362 ENG CO USARV
Born
April 17, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 7, 1967
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “362 ENG CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.