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TYRONE HILL
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
March 12, 1949 – May 12, 1968
Service recordTyrone Hill, of Garfield, New Jersey, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 12, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 4
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Garfield, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 4
- CHARLES WALTER HARBERTPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- JONATHAN HENDERSONSergeant · May 12, 1968
- FRANK MONROE HEPLERStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1968
- PAUL JEWELL HILLWarrant Officer 1 · May 12, 1968
From Garfield
- JOSEPH STEPHEN LAFASOSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JOHN PAUL BARSCHSpecialist Four · December 27, 1967
- KENNETH FRANCIS SCHORNDORFSpecialist Four · April 2, 1968
- CRAIG JESSE DEVORESergeant · July 8, 1968
- ANTHONY MANGANELLO JRLance Corporal · August 28, 1968
- JOSEPH MORRIGGISpecialist Four · July 13, 1969
- MARK JOHN STEPHANACSpecialist Five · September 14, 1969
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.