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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Richard Hinton.

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RICHARD HINTON

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 8, 1946 – June 20, 1966

Service record

Richard Hinton, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 66

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 8, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 20, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 66

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.