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MONTE REX BUSBY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 25, 1942 – January 11, 1968
Service recordMonte Rex Busby, of Birmingham, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 11, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 28
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 25, 1942
- Home of record
- Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 11, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1968; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 34E, Line 28
- EMORY STEPHEN CANNONPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- MICHAEL DEAN CRIBELARPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- DOUGLAS BARTON GREEN IIIFirst Lieutenant · January 11, 1968
- DONALD NELLIS THORESENPetty Officer Second Class · January 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST ODELL BROOMMaster Sergeant · Panel 34E, Line 27
From Birmingham
- SHERMAN ELLIOT WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · July 9, 1965
- CARL WILLIAM MANNPrivate First Class · September 21, 1965
- ROBERT WARREN ALLENPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- GENE WILLIAM WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · October 12, 1965
- JAMES J HOWARDSpecialist Five · November 1, 1965
- CLEO LOCKETTCorporal · November 8, 1965
- HAROLD JAMES BATTLEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- HAROLD EUGENE WATKINSLance Corporal · November 12, 1965
- CHARLES WILLIAM STOREYStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RICHARD EARL HARPERSpecialist Four · January 12, 1966
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.