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BILLY LEE SNIPES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 12, 1947 – October 1, 1967
Service recordBilly Lee Snipes, of Pelham, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 1, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 37
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Seaman (61A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1099 TRANS CO 4 TRANS CMD 1 LOG CMD
- Born
- October 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Pelham, North Carolina (Caswell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 1, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date October 1, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 27E, Line 37
- PATRICK JOSEPH BROPHYCaptain · October 1, 1967
- ROBERT GONZALES MONTOYAPrivate First Class · October 1, 1967
- AUBREY G PARKPrivate First Class · October 1, 1967
- ROBERT VINCENT SIPELance Corporal · October 1, 1967
From Pelham
- JAMES MICHAEL RICHARDSLance Corporal · August 22, 1968
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.