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BILLY CHARLES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 30, 1938 – February 7, 1967
Service recordBilly Charles, of Cumming, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 30, 1938
- Home of record
- Cumming, Georgia (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 5
- WILLIAM EDGAR HANCOCKCorporal · February 7, 1967
- BOBBY JOHN JENNINGSPrivate First Class · February 7, 1967
- DWIGHT DALE JONESSpecialist Four · February 7, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD LITHERLANDSpecialist Four · February 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BOBBY JOHN JENNINGSPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 5
- TIMOTHY ARTHUR OLSONSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 7
From Cumming
- LAMAR HUBBARDSergeant · September 14, 1968
- CHARLIE TIDWELL GAZAWAYSergeant · March 4, 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.