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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 Clifford Thomas Johnson.

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CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSON

Private · U.S. Army

July 7, 1944 – January 29, 1966

Service record

Clifford Thomas Johnson, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 110

Position of Panel 4E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 7, 1944
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 29, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 110

Same unit, same day

From Atlanta

All 188 names from Atlanta →

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.