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JAY DEAN JOHNSON
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
September 16, 1946 – September 2, 1967
Service recordJay Dean Johnson, of Medford, Oregon, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 2, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 85
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
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- September 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Medford, Oregon (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 85
- ALLAN GEORGE KALFASLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- JAMES LEE KEENERCorporal · September 2, 1967
- WAYNE RICHARD KLOESELance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- ARTHUR WELKER REINHARDTPrivate First Class · September 2, 1967
From Medford
- JAMES HERBERT ROWDENPrivate · March 5, 1966
- KEITH LEROY SHIPPPrivate First Class · April 2, 1966
- DAVID STEPHEN CROCKERSpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- WALTER RICHARD SPEARE IIICaptain · November 11, 1966
- MICHAEL LESTER LAWSONPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- CHARLES HARRY SNOWPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- PAUL MELVIN BEDDOE JRPrivate First Class · January 21, 1968
- MICHAEL STEPHEN COLLINSSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- JAMES CARL WHISNANPrivate First Class · March 14, 1968
- FREDERICK DUNHAM GRATENCorporal · April 11, 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.