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JIMMIE DAVID HINTON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 29, 1949 – September 7, 1971
Service recordJimmie David Hinton, of Batesville, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 7, 1971, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Batesville, Mississippi (Panola County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 7, 1971
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1971; two of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 11
- THOMAS EDWARD SWEINSBERGERSpecialist Four · September 4, 1971
- ALAN ROLF HINZPETERSpecialist Four · September 6, 1971
- RONNIE SHINYA MARSHALLSergeant · September 6, 1971
- BRUCE ALTON CANNONCaptain · September 7, 1971
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE ALTON CANNONCaptain · Panel 2W, Line 11
From Batesville
- HAYZELL CALVIN TURNERSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- JOHNNY LEE ROBINSONCorporal · December 28, 1967
- CLARENCE JONESSpecialist Four · May 30, 1968
- CHARLES WATSON WILLINGHAMSpecialist Four · October 5, 1968
- WILLIE CLYDE KUYKENDALLPrivate First Class · August 18, 1971
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.