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BILLY ELWOOD REGISTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 26, 1942 – March 22, 1967
Service recordBilly Elwood Register, of White Springs, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 23
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 26, 1942
- Home of record
- White Springs, Florida (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 23
- JOSEPH ROBERT PIAMBINOPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- JERRY LEE PICKWORTHPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- DENNIS ALBERT PRENTICESpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- PAUL EUGENE REAMSergeant · March 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES MAC DOUGLASStaff Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 17
From White Springs
- WILLIE FRED CATOSpecialist Five · October 13, 1969
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.