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JOHNNIE LEE WILLIAMS JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 11, 1944 – September 22, 1969
Service recordJohnnie Lee Williams JR, of Jacksonville, Florida, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 22, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 126
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- December 11, 1944
- Home of record
- Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 22, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date September 22, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 126
- ERIC ANTHONY LORDCorporal · September 22, 1969
- JOSE CARMELO RENTAS JRPrivate First Class · September 22, 1969
- MARK WAYNE SURBERPrivate First Class · September 22, 1969
- JAMES TAYLOR TUCKERSergeant First Class · September 22, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BARRY KENNETH ALEXANDERChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 18W, Line 124
From Jacksonville
- LOYE THOMAS CHRISTMASPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- WYLEY WRIGHT JRSpecialist Five · March 9, 1964
- OTIS GORDON JRMajor · November 19, 1964
- HORACE CLEVELAND COLLINSSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
- JAMES HENRY KINGSergeant First Class · October 6, 1965
- RODNEY CARSWELL HARRISPrivate First Class · November 1, 1965
- HENRY TUCKER CANNONSergeant First Class · November 8, 1965
- NATHANIEL BYRDSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- WILLIE FRANK GODBOLDTSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- ALEXANDER WILLIAMSSergeant · November 15, 1965
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.