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WILL DANNY BILLINGS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 10, 1946 – November 6, 1970
Service recordWill Danny Billings, of Helena, Alabama, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 6, 1970, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 42
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Communications Electronics Equipment Mechanic (31B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Helena, Alabama (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 6, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1970; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 42
- J C DAVISSergeant · November 5, 1970
- MEREDITH LEE BARNETTSergeant · November 6, 1970
- LONNIE DALE FIELDSSpecialist Four · November 6, 1970
- RUBENEDID HERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZStaff Sergeant · November 6, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JOHN THOMAS PETTITT SRSergeant · Panel 6W, Line 43
From Helena
- CLAUDE MARVIN BUNCHTechnical Sergeant · May 16, 1965
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.