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BILLIE WAYNE BRIGHT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 18, 1947 – November 11, 1967
Service recordBillie Wayne Bright, of Gaylesville, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 70
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 299 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- September 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Gaylesville, Alabama (Cherokee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 299 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 70
- FRANCIS DUANE BATTISTALance Corporal · November 11, 1967
- JAMES LEROY BEYERLINGStaff Sergeant · November 11, 1967
- ELZA MORTON BREWER JRSergeant · November 11, 1967
- THOMAS JAMES CARTERSpecialist Four · November 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ALLEN COLLIERPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 71
- ROBERT EMMETT HAYNESSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 72
- CHARLES DOUGLAS SAWYERSStaff Sergeant · Panel 29E, Line 76
- JOHN JOSEPH TISCORNIASpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 78
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.