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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joe Edward Johnson.

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JOE EDWARD JOHNSON

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 27, 1941 – July 3, 1966

Service record

Joe Edward Johnson, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 124

Position of Panel 8E 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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 27, 1941
Home of record
Tuscumbia, Alabama (Colbert County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 3, 1966
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 124

Same unit, same day

From Tuscumbia

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.