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JOHNNIE MARVIN AYERS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 4, 1949 – January 17, 1969
Service recordJohnnie Marvin Ayers, of Elkview, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 19
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
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Elkview, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 34W, Line 19
- ERIK NILES RUDZIAKFireman · January 16, 1969
- RANDALL JAMES WICKLACESpecialist Four · January 16, 1969
- MILTON JERRY WORRELLSeaman · January 16, 1969
- CURTIS STEWART ANDERSONFirst Lieutenant · January 17, 1969
From Elkview
- JAMES RONALD BURDETTELance Corporal · August 23, 1966
- WILLIS ARNOLD KARICKHOFFAirman First Class · October 28, 1966
- GUY RICHARD HIVELYSergeant First Class · February 2, 1968
- CLAYTON ANDREW CRAFTPrivate First Class · April 8, 1968
- THOMAS LOWELL WINESCorporal · June 23, 1968
- LEWIS DAYTON MOLESSpecialist Four · August 8, 1970
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.