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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 Johnnie Graham JR.

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JOHNNIE GRAHAM JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 3, 1949 – August 15, 1969

Service record

Johnnie Graham JR, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 15, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 44

Position of Panel 19W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
December 3, 1949
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 15, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 44

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.