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JAMES JOHNSON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 10, 1947 – February 6, 1968
Service recordJames Johnson JR, of Eddystone, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Communications Center Specialist (72B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- June 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Eddystone, Pennsylvania (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Phong Dinh 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 37E, Line 59
- MICHAEL WAYNE JOHNSCorporal · February 6, 1968
- GREGORY JONESSergeant · February 6, 1968
- THOMAS PAUL JONESLieutenant · February 6, 1968
- BEN JOWERS JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FORREST LEE BOLINSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 48
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.