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LONNIE ONEAL HILL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 28, 1947 – August 29, 1967
Service recordLonnie Oneal Hill, of Atoka, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 63
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Atoka, Tennessee (Tipton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 63
- ALBERT C HORACE JRSergeant · August 29, 1967
- THOMAS WELDON JONESSpecialist Four · August 29, 1967
- J D WILLIAM KERSEYLance Corporal · August 29, 1967
- TIMOTHY FRANCIS LIESECorporal · August 29, 1967
From Atoka
- LEROY BUFORDSergeant · April 18, 1967
- ALFONSO AUGUSTUS WEBBLance Corporal · April 26, 1969
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.