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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Victor C Hill.

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VICTOR C HILL

Private · U.S. Army

February 12, 1948 – March 5, 1967

Service record

Victor C Hill, of New York, New York, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 20

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 228 AVN BN 1 CAV DIV
Born
February 12, 1948
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 5, 1967
Age
19
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1967; eight of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 20

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.