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JOHNIE REESE GODWIN JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 28, 1946 – November 29, 1968
Service recordJohnie Reese Godwin JR, of Montgomery, Alabama, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Montgomery, Alabama (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 5
- VESTIE TIMOTHY DRIGGERSSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- GEORGE ARTHUR FOSTER IIISpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- JOHN RUFUS GASTON JRPrivate First Class · November 29, 1968
- JESUS EPHRAIM GOMEZ JRCorporal · November 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD LAWTON BASHAMCorporal · Panel 37W, Line 3
- HURSTON EDWARD WORRELLPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 7
From Montgomery
- FRANK LEONARD MILLER IIICaptain · September 30, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS MOOREPrivate First Class · November 15, 1965
- JAMES WALTER DENNIS JRLance Corporal · March 18, 1966
- GEORGE CANADA JRStaff Sergeant · May 15, 1966
- JIMMIE L SCOTTSpecialist Five · June 1, 1966
- WILLIAM HUGH GARDNER JRSpecialist Four · August 2, 1966
- JAMES ALLEN SKINNERPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- CHARLES TYRONE DAYLance Corporal · September 3, 1966
- THOMAS E DORANSpecialist Four · September 3, 1966
- WILLIAM J SEAWRIGHT JRSpecialist Four · November 15, 1966
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.