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SAMUEL TONY HILL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 25, 1946 – May 31, 1968
Service recordSamuel Tony Hill, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62W · Line 16
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1968; four of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 62W, Line 16
- ANASTACIO D QUILALANG JRPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- GEORGE MICHAEL RAMOSSergeant · May 31, 1968
- HOWARD TAYLOR ROBERTSPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- CARLISLE ANTHONY RODNEYSpecialist Four · May 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEROY DAVIS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 62W, Line 7
- O L MIDKIFFFirst Sergeant · Panel 62W, Line 13
- JOSEPH PETER MISIASZEKPrivate First Class · Panel 62W, Line 13
- GLENN NOBUYKI NISHIZAWASpecialist Four · Panel 62W, Line 15
- JOSEPH SMARSH IIPrivate First Class · Panel 62W, Line 17
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CARL HORACE WALL JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 1968
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.