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BILLY GRAY STEWART
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 19, 1948 – May 9, 1968
Service recordBilly Gray Stewart, of Swannanoa, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 31
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Swannanoa, North Carolina (Buncombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 57E, Line 31
- WINSTON GLEN PARKERPetty Officer Third Class · May 9, 1968
- JACK EUGENE PORTERLance Corporal · May 9, 1968
- CHARLES RICHAR ROSENBUSCHSpecialist Five · May 9, 1968
- RAMON RODRIGUEZ RUIZSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
From Swannanoa
- RONALD LYNN HURSTPrivate First Class · May 4, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM HANSARD IIICorporal · July 15, 1968
- JAMES ONLEY WEAVERCorporal · December 11, 1968
- BRUCE CLINTON ELKINSSergeant · November 14, 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.