The Wall › Panel 40E › Florida › Billie Ray McCall
BILLIE RAY MCCALL
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
November 17, 1945 – February 22, 1968
Service recordBillie Ray McCall, of Winter Haven, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 66
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Winter Haven, Florida (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. 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 40E, Line 66
- HERMAN MCGEEPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- GREGORY MCINTYREPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- ROBERT JUNIOR NEALPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- JOE MELVIN NEILLPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
From Winter Haven
- GERALD EVERETT OLSONMajor · March 13, 1966
- PETER JOSEPH STEWARTColonel · March 15, 1966
- RICHARD E HOOD JRFirst Lieutenant · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM FORMAN ABERNETHYCaptain · July 21, 1967
- JACKIE LEE MELTONPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- MAURICE LEO SIROISSergeant · February 29, 1968
- EDWARD ULYSES MASTERSPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- MICHAEL BARRY OCONNORLance Corporal · May 1, 1968
- HERBERT MARSHALL ALLENSergeant · June 19, 1968
- JOHN HULSEY HAYSCaptain · November 8, 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.