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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Tillmon Powell Hitchcock.

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TILLMON POWELL HITCHCOCK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 29, 1942 – April 26, 1967

Service record

Tillmon Powell Hitchcock, of Bone Cave, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 18E · Line 94

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 29, 1942
Home of record
Bone Cave, Tennessee (Van Buren County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 26, 1967
Age
24
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 18E, Line 94

Same unit, same day

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.