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RICHARD ALFRED HILL
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 30, 1942 – March 31, 1967
Service recordRichard Alfred Hill, of Rochester, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 31, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 79
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 30, 1942
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 79
- A G HENSLEYSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
- MANUEL ARTLAN HICKS JRPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- GORDON LEE HOGANStaff Sergeant · March 31, 1967
- MICHAEL J LAURIEPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL J LAURIEPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 79
- PATRICK TIMOTHY MERCIERSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 80
- WILLIAM ROBERT PETERSENPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 80
- JOE D STOWERSPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 81
- THOMAS M HANNIGAN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 82
- CHARLES G H SUMMERSSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 82
- DELBERT CHAN TOTTYPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 82
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.