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BILLY DEAN HARRIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 20, 1942 – August 23, 1968
Service recordBilly Dean Harris, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 44
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 20, 1942
- Home of record
- Houston, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 44
- RICKY GENE HARRISONPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- PATRICK SHAWN HEDERMANPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- WALTER MAURICE HENRYPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- EUGENE JOHN HILL JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD DOUGLAS HARNEDSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 42
- JAMES ELGIN NEELYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 47W, Line 51
From Houston
- JOSEPH MICHAEL FAHEY JRCaptain · February 11, 1962
- JOHN F SHAUGHNESSY JRCaptain · February 3, 1963
- RICHARD DALE HILLAirman Second Class · December 6, 1963
- HUGHIE DARELL ADAMSMajor · January 7, 1964
- ALBERT LAWRENCE SHIMEKPrivate First Class · April 10, 1964
- BYRON CLARK STONECaptain · August 20, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HAVEMANNWarrant Officer 1 · October 7, 1964
- ROBERT GRAHAM BELLMajor · May 16, 1965
- LEROY ANTHONY BOURGEOISPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- ROBERT FILMORE BATSONSergeant · August 18, 1965
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.