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JOHNNY LEE WASHBURN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 3, 1947 – March 19, 1967
Service recordJohnny Lee Washburn, of Azusa, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 117
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hawk Missile Crewmember (16D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 68 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Azusa, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “68 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE”, 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 16E, Line 117
- DONALD WESLEY WALTERSSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- RODNEY RICHARD WEEDSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- JOHN CRAIG ARNOLDCorporal · March 20, 1967
- CHARLES WILLIAM BROWN JRSecond Lieutenant · March 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES PAUL BARTONWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 16E, Line 109
- JOHN NOBLE SHEFFIELDSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 115
- GILBERT NOLAN SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 116
From Azusa
- FRED LEWIS PEDERSENStaff Sergeant · January 28, 1967
- RONNY LEROY PALMERSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
- FRANK GONZALES ROMOSergeant · June 17, 1967
- ROBERT GEAN COOPERPrivate First Class · August 14, 1968
- FAGALII LAITA LEATUTUFUStaff Sergeant · November 9, 1968
- TRINIDAD GUTIERREZ PRIETOSpecialist Four · February 13, 1970
- JOE LUNA JRSpecialist Four · August 28, 1970
- WILLIAM EARVIN PIERCELance Corporal · February 13, 1971
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.