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JESSE LEWIS JOHNSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 15, 1947 – June 7, 1967
Service recordJesse Lewis Johnson, of Morris, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 7, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 68
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Morris, Illinois (Grundy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1967; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 68
- THOMAS MICHAEL HEALYPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- KENNETH MICHEAL JOHNSONPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- KENNETH RAY KEEFERLance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- PHILLIP ANDREN VANDEUSENPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
From Morris
- DALE ALTON CRULLChief Warrant Officer 4 · April 26, 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.