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CARL LEE HILL JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 16, 1947 – April 4, 1968
Service recordCarl Lee Hill JR, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 4
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Observation/Scout Helicopter Repairer (67V)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- December 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 48E, Line 4
- DANIEL GUARDADOSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- LEO BRENT GUNNINGSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- FRANK VINCENT HERRERASergeant · April 4, 1968
- CECIL R HOBBS JRSergeant · April 4, 1968
- PAUL LUTHER LOIDOLTPrivate First Class · February 21, 1969
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- DANIEL H LAWLERSpecialist Five · May 20, 1967
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- BOBBY LEE BARBERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1967
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
- VERNELL HENRY MILLER JRPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
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.