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JOHN CHARLES HILL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 23, 1947 – March 1, 1968
Service recordJohn Charles Hill, of Irvington, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Irvington, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 17
- THOMAS CHARLES GOSCHFirst Lieutenant · March 1, 1968
- PAUL WALTER HEINZPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- NATHANIEL HOLMESPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- MICHAEL WILLIAM HOLZMANPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAN LEE NEELYPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 22
From Irvington
- JOHN WILLIAM SCHWEYHER JRPrivate First Class · June 20, 1967
- DONALD LETASecond Lieutenant · February 13, 1968
- FRANKLIN CHARLES ARMENTOSpecialist Four · March 15, 1968
- EUCLIDES RIVERASergeant · January 27, 1969
- JAMES PAUL HANLONSergeant · February 27, 1969
- JOHN KENNETH KRUEGERLance Corporal · May 8, 1969
- GREGORY MITCHELL KUTKOWSKIWarrant Officer 1 · October 18, 1970
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.