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BILLY DAVID HILL
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 17, 1946 – January 21, 1968
Service recordBilly David Hill, of Fallon, Nevada, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on January 21, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- December 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Fallon, Nevada (Churchill County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- January 21, 1968
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 6
- STEVEN LOUIS HELLWIGLance Corporal · January 21, 1968
- TERRY MELVIN JOHNSONPrivate First Class · January 21, 1968
- CLIFTON RANDAL JONESLance Corporal · January 21, 1968
- SEABORN DAN JONESSpecialist Four · January 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JERRY W ELLIOTTStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 5
- WILLIAM ARTHUR KIMSEY JRChief Warrant Officer 3 · Panel 35E, Line 7
- GERALD LEROY MCKINSEY JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 35E, Line 8
From Fallon
- WILLARD VERNON JOHNSONSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- MICHAEL DELANO BLEAPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- RONALD RODRIGUESSpecialist Four · November 9, 1969
- WILLIAM ROBERT ROGNESpecialist Five · March 8, 1970
- EDDIE MOLINO JRCaptain · May 10, 1970
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.