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DENNIS NEIL JOHNSTON
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
December 27, 1947 – April 16, 1968
Service recordDennis Neil Johnston, of Mcdonald, Ohio, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 19
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- December 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Mcdonald, Ohio (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1968; 50 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 19
- AUBREY DAVID MCCLELLANDPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- LARRY GENE MOOREPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- ROBERT FRANKLIN OWENSCorporal · April 16, 1968
- TIMOTHY EUGENE OWENSPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
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.