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JAMES MARSHALL HILL
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 31, 1941 – February 15, 1968
Service recordJames Marshall Hill, of Oak Grove, Louisiana, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 15, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer Unit Commander (1331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- March 31, 1941
- Home of record
- Oak Grove, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; ten of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 48
- JOHN BERNARD HOGANPetty Officer Third Class · February 15, 1968
- EARNEST PAUL HOLMES JRPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- MARK EVERETT JAMESLance Corporal · February 15, 1968
- STANLEY M JAMROCKPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH LIGE FULTONSpecialist Five · Panel 39E, Line 47
- BRUCE ANTHONY NELSONSpecialist Five · Panel 39E, Line 51
- REX FRANKLIN TUTORSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 55
- JAMES LEWIS WOODSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 56
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.