MALCOLM THOMAS MILLER
Unit: H & S Co., 3rd Recon BN, 3rd Marine Division,
Date of Birth: 21 November 1946 (Clewiston FL)
Home City of Record: Tampa FL
Date of Loss: 10 May 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 163706N 1064404E (XD845485)
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action, Body Not
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Refno: 0676
Other Personnel in Incident: Heinz Ahlmeyer Jr.;
James N. Tycz; Samuel A. Sharp (all missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April
1990 from one or more of the following: raw data
from U.S. Government agency sources,
correspondence with POW/MIA families, published
sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK
1998.
REMARKS: KIA WHN PTRL ATKD, WNDD RCV-J
SYNOPSIS: Third Class Petty Officer Malcolm T.
Miller was a hospital corpsman assigned to H & S
Company at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. He was working
with A Company, 3rd Marine Reconnaissance
Battalion, 3rd Marine Division at Khe Sanh on May
9, 1967.
On that day, Miller joined a reconnaissance patrol
from A Company that had the mission of gathering
intelligence information on suspected enemy
infiltration routes near their base. The patrol
was helicopter lifted into an area just south of
the DMZ, where they found signs of recent enemy
activity, and moved to high ground to establish a
night defensive position.
Shortly after 12 p.m. the patrol came under heavy
small arms fire, and several of the team were
wounded. Twelve hours later, after numerous
unsuccessful attempts, a helicopter was finally
able to land and retrieve the wounded. It was not
possible to retrieve the bodies of those who had
died, including Miller, LCpl. Samuel A. Sharp,
Jr., Sgt. James N. Tycz, and 2Lt. Heinz Ahlmeyer,
Jr. All were said to have died during the action
from wounds received from enemy small arms fire
and and grenades.
The four men left behind near the DMZ were never
found. The government of Vietnam has been
consistently uncooperative in releasing remains
they hold or in allowing access to known loss
sites.
Even more tragically, evidence mounts that many
Americans are still alive in Southeast Asia, still
prisoners from a war many have long forgotten. It
is a matter of pride in the armed forces, and
especially in the Marines Corps, that one's
comrades are never left behind. Many men have been
killed trying to bring in a wounded or killed
buddy. One can imagine the men missing from A
Company, as well as Malcolm Miller, had they
survived, being willing to go on one more patrol
for those heroes we left behind.
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