Henry John Muller Jr. (April 7, 1917 – January 31, 2022) was an American soldier who served during

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in the

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with the

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between 1944 and 1945. During the

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, he served as assistant division commander of the

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and as deputy senior adviser to the Vietnamese I Corps commander, Lieutenant General Lam. Muller served as the assistant division commander of the 101st until September 12, 1969. In 2016, his wife Cathryn C. Muller died. She had studied Spanish with her husband and subsequently accompanied him on three diplomatic assignments to El Salvador, Panama, and Argentina. Cathryn Muller was a mother to Henry J. Muller III and Robert A. Muller. Henry Muller died in California on January 31, 2022, at the age of 104.

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