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BILLY LEON HAMMONTREE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 9, 1937 – May 28, 1967
Service recordBilly Leon Hammontree, of Rosepine, Louisiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 4
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 9, 1937
- Home of record
- Rosepine, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1967
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 4
- TED LAVERN EDWARDSPrivate First Class · May 28, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH FINNEGANPrivate First Class · May 28, 1967
- RALPH PRESTON FLINT JRLance Corporal · May 28, 1967
- MICHAEL NATHANIEL HARLEYSpecialist Four · May 28, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD GENE LACEYPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 5
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.