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BILLY JOE MCCARTY
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 30, 1947 – May 27, 1968
Service recordBilly Joe McCarty, of Wilmer, Alabama, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 27, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 12
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Wilmer, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 65W, Line 12
- TIMOTHY PATRICK MCGUIRELance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- JAMES DANIEL MCKELVEYPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES MCNAMARALance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- THOMAS HAROLD NERINIPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
From Wilmer
- CLAUDE TYLER TURNERSpecialist Five · January 29, 1966
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.