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WARD WARREN MILLS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 21, 1945 – June 10, 1966
Service recordWard Warren Mills JR, of Shawsville, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 30
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 21, 1945
- Home of record
- Shawsville, Virginia (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 10, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 8E, Line 30
- GREGORY THOMAS BUCZYNSKIPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- PETER DANIEL GEOGHEGANPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- EDWARD ALLEN IYNDELLINPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- MICHAEL THOMAS MURPHYPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- GEROLD SCHAEFFERPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY THOMAS BUCZYNSKIPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 30
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.