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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Billy Ray Moffett.

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BILLY RAY MOFFETT

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 30, 1930 – May 27, 1966

Service record

Billy Ray Moffett, of Shreveport, Louisiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 27, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 112

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
Unit (as recorded)
E CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
September 30, 1930
Home of record
Shreveport, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
May 27, 1966
Age
35
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 112

From Shreveport

All 54 names from Shreveport →

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.