Billy Kennedy Evans Jr.

Vietnam War
Unit1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division
RankSergeant U.S. Army
Entered Service FromRoanoke Virginia
Date of DeathDecember 5 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Sergeant Evans was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. On December 5, 1968, he was the pilot of a Hughes Cayuse Observation Helicopter on a reconnaissance mission of suspected enemy bunker complex in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam near Cambodia. As the aircraft approached the area it received ground fire crashed and burned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.