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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Lynn Hino.

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MICHAEL LYNN HINO

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 29, 1952 – November 1, 1971

Service record

Michael Lynn Hino, of Columbia, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1971, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 58

Position of Panel 2W 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 Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Wheel Vehicle Repairer (63W)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
February 29, 1952
Home of record
Columbia, South Carolina (Richland County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 1, 1971
Age
19
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1971; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In November 1971, 109 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 58

From Columbia

All 68 names from Columbia →

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.