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BILLY LEWIS STRICKLAND
Corporal · U.S. Army
November 22, 1946 – January 24, 1968
Service recordBilly Lewis Strickland, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 28
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Fire Support Specialist (13F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- November 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Hendersonville, North Carolina (Henderson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1968; 19 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 28
- MICHAEL EUGENE STEPHENSPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 1968
- JAMES RUSSELL WESTPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- CHARLES MOTT WHITE SRPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 1968
- GEORGE DONALD ANDERSONSpecialist Four · January 25, 1968
From Hendersonville
- ARTHUR WAYNE WILKIESpecialist Four · January 16, 1967
- CHARLES LEE KINGSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- JAMES DANIEL BAILEYSergeant · January 17, 1969
- GARY RICHARD MASONWarrant Officer 1 · September 14, 1969
- ROBERT LAMAR JOHNSONSergeant · January 25, 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.