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HOWARD SCOTT HILL
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 31, 1946 – May 23, 1969
Service recordHoward Scott Hill, of Irwin, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1969, in Cambodia, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 85
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 31, 1946
- Home of record
- Irwin, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 24W, Line 85
- GARY LEE HISLECorporal · May 23, 1969
- GRAHAM HUGHESPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- HENRY DAVID JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- EDWARD HENRY KENNEDYSpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RUDOLPH GEORGE MACHATAStaff Sergeant · Panel 24W, Line 87
- PHILIP WILLIAM STROUTSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 91
From Irwin
- JOSEPH EDWARD HETZER JRSpecialist Five · January 5, 1966
- PAUL FRANCIS SHOGANPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- LESTER ALLEN WRIGHTPetty Officer Third Class · July 31, 1966
- JULIUS BRADLEY HUGHESPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- JAMES ALBERT MORRISONPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- JOHN MARK SPIELMANSeaman · February 26, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD MCCLELLANDGunnery Sergeant · April 11, 1968
- TIMOTHY WILLIAM GILKEYLance Corporal · July 5, 1968
- ANTHONY PASQUALE PATRICCASpecialist Four · September 13, 1968
- DELBERT LEO SINGLER JRPetty Officer Third Class · March 3, 1969
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.