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BILLY STANLEY ARMSTRONG
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
May 28, 1939 – June 16, 1968
Service recordBilly Stanley Armstrong, of West Helena, Arkansas, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 16, 1968, in North Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 34
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Born
- May 28, 1939
- Home of record
- West Helena, Arkansas (Phillips County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 57W, Line 34
- ALOYSIUS F SPICZKA JRPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- LEEVERNE RICHARD ACHOEPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- JESSE STEPHEN AYRESPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- THOMAS D BERNARDPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
From West Helena
- LEE ARTHUR WILLIAMSSergeant · June 10, 1969
- JAMES LEE GETTERPrivate · March 16, 1971
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.