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BILLY BROWN KING
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 22, 1939 – September 22, 1966
Service recordBilly Brown King, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 22, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 133 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 133
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 22, 1939
- Home of record
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Hardin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 22, 1966
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date September 22, 1966; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 133
- LARRY LEE LAKEYPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ MORENOPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- NORMAN JOSEPH NAPIERATALance Corporal · September 22, 1966
- JAMES DAVID SMITHPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
From Elizabethtown
- JERRY DEAN OLDSAirman First Class · June 5, 1966
- ALVIN COY KNIGHTCorporal · May 5, 1968
- HUBERT WAYNE MILLERSpecialist Four · October 4, 1968
- THOMAS JACKSON BARNES JRSergeant · July 9, 1969
- ROBERT SAMPSON GEERSergeant First Class · November 30, 1970
- TERRY WAYNE DOANSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
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.