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GARY LEE JOHNSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 7, 1948 – February 18, 1971
Service recordGary Lee Johnson, of Malibu, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 116
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Malibu, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1971
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1971; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 5W, Line 116
- EARLEY CARTER GRACEPrivate First Class · February 18, 1971
- LARRY RICHARD HATTERCorporal · February 18, 1971
- WAYNE REUBEN HYATTMajor · February 18, 1971
- COLEY LEE KENDALLSergeant · February 18, 1971
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE PHILLIP BERGChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 5W, Line 114
- GREGORY STEPHEN CRANDALLWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 5W, Line 115
- WALTER EDWARD DEMSEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 5W, Line 115
- ROBERT JOSEPH ENGENSpecialist Four · Panel 5W, Line 115
- WALTER EDWARD LEWELLENSergeant · Panel 5W, Line 117
- GERALD ERNEST WOODSWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 5W, Line 119
From Malibu
- ERIC WARD ZOLLERSpecialist Four · January 22, 1967
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.