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WILLIAM CECIL HINKLE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 15, 1947 – November 21, 1967
Service recordWilliam Cecil Hinkle, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; ten of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 30E, Line 56
- DAVID ELSON HOMMELSpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
- FLOYD ALLAN HYDERCorporal · November 21, 1967
- GERALD KLOSSEKPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
- ROBERT LEONARD MCCARTERPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GERALD KLOSSEKPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 56
- ROY RONALD LEESpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 57
- ROBERT WILLIAM LINDGRENSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 57
- ROLAND WILL MANUELStaff Sergeant · Panel 30E, Line 57
- RAYMOND WIL MICHALOPOULOSSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 57
- OLIS RAY RIGBYSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 59
- JESSE E SMITHPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 59
- DAVID RICHARD REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 60
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- RALPH ROGER JUSTICEStaff Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 1967
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.