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BILLY WAYNE RAPP
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 30, 1947 – March 21, 1969
Service recordBilly Wayne Rapp, of Godby, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 2
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Godby, West Virginia (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 2
- JAMES RANDOLPH REGNOLDSPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
- ROBERT LUCIAN RIGGINS JRCorporal · March 21, 1969
- MIGUEL ANGEL RIVERASpecialist Four · March 21, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWIN ROWEStaff Sergeant · March 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM EDWIN ROWEStaff Sergeant · Panel 28W, Line 2
- CLIFFORD MCARTHUR TAYLORCorporal · Panel 28W, Line 4
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.