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BILLIE HOWARD FULK JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 31, 1948 – May 30, 1968
Service recordBillie Howard Fulk JR, of Platte City, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 30, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 63W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 63W · Line 15
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Materiel Storage And Handling Specialist (76V)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Platte City, Missouri (Platte County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 30, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date May 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 63W, Line 15
- PAUL JAMES COATESLance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- GERALD ALAN COLLISSpecialist Four · May 30, 1968
- JAMES DAVISSpecialist Four · May 30, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD DRAEMERLance Corporal · May 30, 1968
- IGNACIO DURANPrivate First Class · May 30, 1968
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.