THE WALL OF FACES

Second Lieutenant Billy Wayne Flynn, Served with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 9th Infantry Division, United States Army Vietnam.

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. While all deaths in Vietnam are tragic that you died just two days after your 24th birthday is especially so. May you rest in eternal peace.

I visited the wall today and was very moved by the honors and sacrifices.

The “Friends of Rocky Versace” remember one of Rocky’s fellow alumni from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point - a brother Airborne-Ranger - Second Lieutenant Billy Wayne Flynn, USMA Class of 1966, on what would’ve been his 78th birthday - 21 January 2021.

2LT Billy Wayne Flynn was the first of 29 graduates from the USMA class of 1966 to die in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Commissioned a 2LT of Infantry upon graduation on 8 June 1966, he arrived in Vietnam on 18 December 1966 - proudly wearing his recently-earned RANGER tab in addition to the Paratrooper's wings for which he qualified years earlier as an enlisted Airborne Soldier. His assignment was to Company "C," 3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division (Old Reliables). 2LT Flynn was KIA on 23 Jan 1967 - 36 days "in-country." Remembered on the 52nd anniversary of his death, in combat, in Vietnam.