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EUGENE JOHN HILL JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 18, 1948 – August 23, 1968
Service recordEugene John Hill JR, of Blackwood, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 44
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Blackwood, New Jersey (Camden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 44
- BILLY DEAN HARRISSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
- RICKY GENE HARRISONPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- PATRICK SHAWN HEDERMANPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- WALTER MAURICE HENRYPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE CALENTINECorporal · Panel 47W, Line 39
- JOHN LEO DIEDERICHSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 40
- WILBURN CHASTAIN GIDEONCaptain · Panel 47W, Line 42
- JOEL MITCHELL LAROCHEPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 47
- ROGER RALPH MOLLSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 49
- ROBERT WAYNE SALTERSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 54
- DANIEL GEORGE SCHWANCorporal · Panel 47W, Line 54
- STEVEN CHARLES VINTERPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 56
From Blackwood
- DOUGLAS MARTIN SOROKALance Corporal · January 28, 1968
- VICTOR DICAVALLUCCISecond Lieutenant · February 29, 1968
- ANGELO GIACOBBEPrivate First Class · August 19, 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.