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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 Jackson.

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JOHNNIE JACKSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 8, 1947 – June 21, 1968

Service record

Johnnie Jackson, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 55W · Line 13

Position of Panel 55W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 8, 1947
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 21, 1968
Age
21
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1968; nine of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 55W, Line 13

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.