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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Boyce Lee Hall.

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BOYCE LEE HALL

Corporal · U.S. Army

August 7, 1947 – December 10, 1968

Service record

Boyce Lee Hall, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 81

Position of Panel 37W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
August 7, 1947
Home of record
Spartanburg, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 10, 1968
Age
21
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 81

From Spartanburg

All 32 names from Spartanburg →

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.