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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Julius Miller.

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WILLIAM JULIUS MILLER

Seaman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

December 21, 1947 – October 13, 1967

Service record

William Julius Miller, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Seaman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 13, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 102

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Seaman Apprentice (SA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Unit (as recorded)
NAVSUPPACT
Born
December 21, 1947
Home of record
St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 13, 1967
Age
19
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 102

From St Louis

All 296 names from St Louis →

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.