A Daviess County roadway is being renamed in honor of the county’s first Vietnam War casualty.
The state is designating ten miles of Kentucky 144 as the SP5 Charles Francis Millay Memorial Highway.
The Messenger-Inquirer reports a ceremony will be held Saturday morning at St. William Catholic Church in Millay’s hometown of Knottsville.
Millay was 23 and on his second tour of Vietnam when the helicopter he was in was shot down over the southern providence of Binh Dinh in 1965. He died along with eight others aboard the helicopter.
Millay served as a crew chief and door gunner with the 145th Airlift Platoon.
A motorcycle escort will ride through St. William Cemetery, where Millay is buried, to pay tribute to him. A 21-gun military salute and the playing of taps will conclude the ceremony.
