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BILLY WALKER MCGHEE
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
December 16, 1936 – February 6, 1968
Service recordBilly Walker McGhee, of Rockwood, Tennessee, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 6, 1968, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 64
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 First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Asw Technician (AX)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- December 16, 1936
- Home of record
- Rockwood, Tennessee (Roane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 64
- HOMER EUGENE MCKAYPetty Officer Second Class · February 6, 1968
- DENNIS DEAN NEHRINGPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- JAMES CLIFFORD NEWMAN JRPetty Officer First Class · February 6, 1968
- WILLIAM WILSON NORMANCorporal · February 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT FRANK MEGLIOLieutenant Commander · Panel 37E, Line 62
From Rockwood
- JAMES EARL CUNNINGHAMSpecialist Four · April 29, 1966
- RALPH RONALD SPRINGS JRPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- ALVIN FLYNN GUNTERSergeant First Class · March 28, 1969
- MICHAEL LYNN FERGUSONPetty Officer First Class · November 28, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM KNIGHTSpecialist Five · September 11, 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.