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BILLY GENE CREECH
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 17, 1946 – March 6, 1969
Service recordBilly Gene Creech, of Chamblee, Georgia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 52
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Air Observation Pilot (1981)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Chamblee, Georgia (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 52
- CARL DENNIS CAINSpecialist Four · March 6, 1969
- WEYMAN TERRY COOKSpecialist Four · March 6, 1969
- RICHARD DENNIS COYLEPrivate First Class · March 6, 1969
- EUGENE ELDERCorporal · March 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN TERENCE MCDONNELLMajor · Panel 30W, Line 58
- MICHAEL LEE WOODSIDECaptain · Panel 30W, Line 59
From Chamblee
- THOMAS VINCENT MAYBURYLance Corporal · February 17, 1968
- CHARLES HOWARD RAMPLEYSpecialist Four · March 7, 1968
- LARRY RICHARD TODDSergeant · April 26, 1968
- MORRIS A MALLARD JRSergeant First Class · August 7, 1968
- RONALD FRANK GREENSergeant · September 26, 1968
- DONALD LEE HARRISONMajor · October 29, 1968
- WOLFRAM J KRETSCHMANNPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- JAMES ALTON COWAN JRSergeant · June 18, 1969
- MAJOR BOONE MORGAN JRCorporal · August 21, 1969
- HOWARD EUGENE WILLIAMS JRStaff Sergeant · December 7, 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.