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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Douglas Wayne Hill.

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DOUGLAS WAYNE HILL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 9, 1947 – July 21, 1967

Service record

Douglas Wayne Hill, of Lawton, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 21, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 100

Position of Panel 23E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
February 9, 1947
Home of record
Lawton, Oklahoma (Comanche County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 21, 1967
Age
20
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 100

Same unit, same day

From Lawton

All 33 names from Lawton →

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.