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EUGENE CHARLES JOHNSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 25, 1948 – March 18, 1968
Service recordEugene Charles Johnson, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 23
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- September 25, 1948
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 23
- MCARTHUR HAMBURGLance Corporal · March 18, 1968
- ARTHUR LEE HAWKINS JRPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- LORNE COLEMAN KRUEGERPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- WALTER ALEXANDER WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.