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ALVESTER HILL
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 22, 1933 – March 1, 1967
Service recordAlvester Hill, of Halifax, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 128
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. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 22, 1933
- Home of record
- Halifax, North Carolina (Halifax County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1967
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 15E, Line 128
- TOMMY DOYLE HIGGERSONSpecialist Four · March 1, 1967
- JOSE HOLGUIN JRLance Corporal · March 1, 1967
- ROLAND RALPH JOHNCorporal · March 1, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD JOHNSONCorporal · March 1, 1967
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.