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BILLY LEE COOK
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 30, 1947 – July 18, 1968
Service recordBilly Lee Cook, of Beardstown, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 3
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Carpentry And Masonry Specialist (51B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 34 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- January 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Beardstown, Illinois (Cass County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 34 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 3
- LAWRENCE ARNOLD DAVISSergeant · July 18, 1968
- VICTOR LOUIS DODDYSpecialist Four · July 18, 1968
- HERMAN DERL DUNCANStaff Sergeant · July 18, 1968
- MICHAEL ELKINTONCorporal · July 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MANUEL ANGEL CASTILLOPrivate First Class · Panel 51W, Line 2
- WILLIAM EARNEST BEALL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 51W, Line 5
From Beardstown
- ROBERT ALAN FOXPrivate First Class · August 18, 1969
- LESTER WILSON KIMBLESpecialist Four · February 5, 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.