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Eddie
Hill
Hill
CPL · · Light Weapons Infantry
KIA
In-Country Service
1965-08-19 –
Home of Record
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama
Character of Service
Honorable
Archive Status
Active
Compiled from the Virtual Wall, the VVMF Wall of Faces, Honor States, and the November 4, 1965 event record (Hill 732, Pleiku Campaign). If you served with or knew Eddie Hill, please use the contribute form to share what you remember.
1965-08-19
Arrived
Began tour in Vietnam — August 19, 1965
CPL Hill began his tour with D Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry (Airmobile), 1st Cavalry Division — among the first weeks of the division's deployment to the Republic of Vietnam.
1965-11-04
Combat Action
Killed in Action
Killed in action — Hill 732, Pleiku Province
CPL Hill was killed by hostile small-arms fire during the battalion action near Hill 732 in the Chu Pong–Ia Drang area of Pleiku Province, part of the pursuit of the PAVN 33rd Regiment after the relief of Plei Me. He was 25. Two other D Company men — SGT Richard Coffey and PFC Wright Hamill — were killed the same day; all three are inscribed together on the Wall (Panel 3E, Lines 17–18).
⚠ Source Notice — Multiple Accounts Exist
Casualty cause (hostile, small-arms fire) from the Honor States record. Place of death follows the event reconstruction (Hill 732 / Pleiku Province); the casualty record's "Long Khanh" province is a known DCAS coding error.
1965-11-04
Casualty record
Hill 732, Chu Pong–Ia Drang area, Pleiku Province, RVN (vicinity LZ Juliet)
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