Val Romani — D Co. 2/8 CAV — Angry Skipper Archive

Val
Romani

LT · Cat ·

In-Country Service

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Character of Service

Honorable

Archive Status

Active

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Photos (6)

Served alongside (7)

Verbal accounts (2)

Documents (0)

Letters (0)

Service record (1)

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Photographs pending. Romani appears in photographs from the Marvin Miller collection; see the romani-research anecdote for the story of how he was identified.

Photos of Val

Soldiers from Cat Platoon taking a break in the bush, July or August 1971

Photos Taken by Val

Marvin Miller (left) and Ted Hryniw in a firebase bunker.

Marvin Miller (left) and Bill Small in the bush

Marvin Miller in the bush during the fall of 1971

In the same photos or documents 7

Marvin Miller

Cat

Ted Hryniw

Cat

Bill Small

Cat

Dale Tincher

Cat

Dennis Alloway

Cat

Fred Hurst

Cat

Ken Weaver

Cat

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Archive Accounts

2 Accounts

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Lt. Val Romani on SGT Marvin Miller

· Lt. Val Romani, Cat 6

Marvin's platoon leader in his final months in-country called him one of his best squad leaders — and traced it directly to a Pennsylvania boyhood spent hunting.

testimony

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How We Found Lt. Romani

2024–2025 · Son of SGT Marvin Dale Miller

A phone number that didn't work, an address that might, photographs of a man taken fifty-four years ago, and a 1st Cavalry patch on the outside of an envelope.

research

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MOS

Component

U.S. Army

Unit

D Co. 2/8 CAV, 1st Air Cavalry Division

Character of Service

Honorable

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