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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kimber Lynn Hall.

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KIMBER LYNN HALL

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

November 20, 1949 – June 4, 1971

Service record

Kimber Lynn Hall, of Seattle, Washington, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 4, 1971, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 65

Position of Panel 3W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
November 20, 1949
Home of record
Seattle, Washington (King County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 4, 1971
Age
21
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1971; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 65

From Seattle

All 238 names from Seattle →

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.