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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carroll Marshall Johnson.

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CARROLL MARSHALL JOHNSON

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 27, 1942 – October 1, 1967

Service record

Carroll Marshall Johnson, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 1, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 35

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical (Nbc) Specialist (54E)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC
Born
June 27, 1942
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 1, 1967
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date October 1, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 35

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.