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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Billy Cunningham.

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BILLY CUNNINGHAM

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 22, 1948 – August 18, 1967

Service record

Billy Cunningham, of Wrightsville, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 25E · Line 11

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
December 22, 1948
Home of record
Wrightsville, Arkansas (Pulaski County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 18, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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23 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 25E, Line 11

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.