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JOE D JOHNSON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 22, 1946 – January 2, 1967
Service recordJoe D Johnson JR, of Ecorse, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 109
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Ecorse, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 109
- EDWARD EUGENE GREENEStaff Sergeant · January 2, 1967
- FRED D HARTPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- JOE HERNANDEZ JRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- ELMER L JUCKETT IIIPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDWARD GORDONPrivate First Class · Panel 13E, Line 108
- JOHN LEONARD KINTONPrivate First Class · Panel 13E, Line 110
From Ecorse
- CHARLES WILLIAM KINNEYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1968
- JAIME VILLALOBOSStaff Sergeant · May 25, 1968
- PHILIP LEONARD TANKPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- MARTEE BRADLEY JRSpecialist Four · December 8, 1968
- CHARLES LOUIS TANKCorporal · April 19, 1969
- FLOYD RICHARDSON JRSpecialist Four · February 2, 1971
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.