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BILLY WAYNE DUKE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 21, 1948 – March 28, 1969
Service recordBilly Wayne Duke, of Albertville, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 68
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- June 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Albertville, Alabama (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 68
- ROBERT DEAN DAVENPORTCaptain · March 28, 1969
- SEAN TIMOTHY DORANCorporal · March 28, 1969
- ROGER JOSEPH DUMONTPrivate First Class · March 28, 1969
- JOSEPH DANIEL GOODALE JRCorporal · March 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STANLEY THOMAS BRADLEYSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 66
- MARVIN JAMES ROBERTSCaptain · Panel 28W, Line 75
From Albertville
- RAYMOND CLARENCE WALDROPPrivate First Class · October 19, 1968
- STEPHEN DAVID LYNNSpecialist Four · December 3, 1969
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.