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JOHNNIE LEE EVANS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 2, 1946 – February 24, 1967
Service recordJohnnie Lee Evans, of Birmingham, Alabama, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 24, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 83
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 168 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- March 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 24, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date February 24, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HHC 168 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 83
- TERRY LEE DAVISPetty Officer Third Class · February 24, 1967
- GEORGE HARRY DORSEY JRCorporal · February 24, 1967
- JOBIE CLAYTON DOZIERPrivate First Class · February 24, 1967
- DONALD CARYL GRANEYMajor · February 24, 1967
From Birmingham
- SHERMAN ELLIOT WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · July 9, 1965
- CARL WILLIAM MANNPrivate First Class · September 21, 1965
- ROBERT WARREN ALLENPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- GENE WILLIAM WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · October 12, 1965
- JAMES J HOWARDSpecialist Five · November 1, 1965
- CLEO LOCKETTCorporal · November 8, 1965
- HAROLD JAMES BATTLEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- HAROLD EUGENE WATKINSLance Corporal · November 12, 1965
- CHARLES WILLIAM STOREYStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RICHARD EARL HARPERSpecialist Four · January 12, 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.