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JOHN KENNY HILL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 7, 1947 – August 27, 1968
Service recordJohn Kenny Hill, of Tunica, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 27, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 39
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Tunica, Mississippi (Tunica County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date August 27, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 39
- KENNETH DALE COMBSSergeant · August 27, 1968
- TIMOTHY JAMES COTTRELLSergeant · August 27, 1968
- WILLIAM FELTON CROOK JRSpecialist Four · August 27, 1968
- GLENN FREDRICK DEANSergeant · August 27, 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.