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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marvin Charles Hill.

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MARVIN CHARLES HILL

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

August 2, 1945 – May 25, 1967

Service record

Marvin Charles Hill, of Poulsbo, Washington, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 103

Position of Panel 20E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Equipment Operator (EO)
Born
August 2, 1945
Home of record
Poulsbo, Washington (Kitsap County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 103

From Poulsbo

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.