Joseph Arnold Hill

Vietnam War
UnitMarine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262
RankLance Corporal U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service FromTaylorville Illinois
Date of DeathMay 28 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Lance Corporal Hill was a member of the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262, Marine Air Group 39, 1st Marine Air Wing. On May 28, 1968, he was on a foot patrol near the Song Buong River, Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam when his unit came under attack. He was killed from fragment wounds from an enemy grenade. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.