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BILLY CLYDE ALSTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 5, 1949 – April 15, 1969
Service recordBilly Clyde Alston, of Brighton, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 84
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Brighton, Tennessee (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1969; 16 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 84
- RICHARD BAILEY TUTENSergeant · April 14, 1969
- MICHAEL NICHOLAS VITALEPrivate First Class · April 14, 1969
- JAMES WILLIE WILSONPrivate · April 14, 1969
- ROBERT BRAXTON WOODARDPrivate · April 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STANLEY ALAN CARTERSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 85
- JAMES WILBERT DERBYSHIREPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 86
- JOHN GIRARD GLASSEYSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 87
- MICHAEL EDWIN HARRSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 87
- WILLIAM F HITCHCOCKPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 87
- WILLIE BREWSTER JACOBSSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 88
- LAWRENCE OSWALD KELLER JRSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 88
- RALPH MAYNARDSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 89
- LARRY PETER TREGRESpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 89
- ANTHONY ALPHONSE PROIETTISergeant · Panel 27W, Line 90
- PETER TERENCE RASMUSSENSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 91
- JOHN LEWIS SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 91
From Brighton
- JOHN ALBERT HUGHLETTSergeant · November 8, 1965
- JIMMY DALE BLALACKCorporal · October 31, 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.