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COLEMAN GEE HILLMAN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 4, 1933 – December 3, 1967
Service recordColeman Gee Hillman, of Whiteville, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 27
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- June 4, 1933
- Home of record
- Whiteville, Tennessee (Hardeman County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1967
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 27
- TOMMY RAY THOMPSONSergeant · December 2, 1967
- THOMAS JAMES WALKERCorporal · December 2, 1967
- ROBERT ALLEN WENNESLance Corporal · December 2, 1967
- LARRY GLEN WILLIAMSLance Corporal · December 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD CHARLES BALUKONISCorporal · Panel 31E, Line 28
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.