MICKEY WILLIAM HILL

Company E 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 03/21/1969

 

 

Age: 20
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Dec 15, 1948
From: ASHEBORO, NC
Religion: METHODIST
Marital Status: Single

CPL - E4 - Army - Selective Service
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11C10: Indirect Fire Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 21, 1968
Casualty was on Mar 21, 1969
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

Panel 29W - Line 98

 

Mickey Hill was killed by friendly fire when mistaken for an enemy soldier near the bunker line at LZ Jood,
at grid reference YB940046, approximately 22 kilometers south/southeast of the village of Ben Het.

 

 

 

 

Corporal Mickey W. Hill's decorations

 

 

 

Mickey Hill

photo by Tom Reece

 

 

Burial:
Mount Shepherd United Methodist Church Cemetery
Asheboro
Randolph County
North Carolina, USA

Cemetery monument for Mickey W. Hill

photo by Sandra Holliday Smith

 

 

Grave marker for Mickey W. Hill

photo by Tom Reece

 

 

 

 

For tributes to CPL Mickey William Hill click on the following links:

 

Together we Served

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