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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Juna Johnson.

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JAMES JUNA JOHNSON

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 2, 1950 – February 28, 1969

Service record

James Juna Johnson, of Rose Hill, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 94

Position of Panel 31W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
May 2, 1950
Home of record
Rose Hill, North Carolina (Duplin County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 28, 1969
Age
18
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 94

From Rose Hill

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.