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CHARLIE HILL III
Corporal · U.S. Army
September 7, 1947 – March 31, 1969
Service recordCharlie Hill III, of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 31, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 97
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Pelahatchie, Mississippi (Rankin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 97
- RAMEY LEO CARPENTERLieutenant · March 31, 1969
- CHARLES ROBERT CUNNINGHAMSpecialist Four · March 31, 1969
- JEROME ANTHONY DEGALLEYCorporal · March 31, 1969
- TERRY LEE DELCAMBREPrivate First Class · March 31, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD JOSEPH FRENDLINGSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 100
From Pelahatchie
- BILLY PAT CARLISLECorporal · April 1, 1970
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.