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KEMPER SWANSON BILLINGS
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
July 16, 1938 – October 29, 1966
Service recordKemper Swanson Billings, of Burlington, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 29, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 126
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
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Born
- July 16, 1938
- Home of record
- Burlington, North Carolina (Alamance County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1966; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 126
- PHILLIP RODNEY COLEMANPrivate First Class · October 29, 1966
- RAYMOND DOSSSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
- CREIGHTON ROBERT DUNNSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
- WILLIAM GRANVILLE MANSFIELDSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
From Burlington
- HAROLD LEE GUTHRIESpecialist Five · July 15, 1962
- JAMES LEROY GRAVESSpecialist Four · July 9, 1966
- ROBERT EDWARD PULLIAM JRSergeant · July 21, 1966
- KENNETH FRANK UNDERWOODPrivate First Class · February 25, 1967
- ROBERT LEE PATE IIIPrivate First Class · March 23, 1967
- FRANKIE DON WADESpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
- DENNIS LEE HALLPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
- WILLIAM ROBERT BRAYSecond Lieutenant · October 9, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS WEBSTERPrivate First Class · January 10, 1968
- FRED REAVES JRSergeant · February 22, 1968
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.