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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Thomas Hines.

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JOHN THOMAS HINES

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 7, 1948 – January 11, 1969

Service record

John Thomas Hines, of Campobello, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 11, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35W · Line 71

Position of Panel 35W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
July 7, 1948
Home of record
Campobello, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 11, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35W, Line 71

Same unit, same day

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.