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JOHNNY LEE WILKS
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 7, 1948 – September 13, 1968
Service recordJohnny Lee Wilks, of Columbia, Mississippi, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 55
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Columbia, Mississippi (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 55
- KEITH LINCOLN WAREMajor General · September 13, 1968
- RICHARD WILLIAM WELCHPrivate First Class · September 13, 1968
- BOOKER T WRIGHTPrivate First Class · September 13, 1968
- DANNY R AYERSSergeant · September 14, 1968
From Columbia
- MELVIN MCCRAYPrivate First Class · June 24, 1966
- GEORGE HENRY HADDOXSpecialist Four · January 13, 1967
- JACK JOSEPH JORDAN JRPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- RONALD CHAPMANFireman · January 31, 1969
- FRANK SPIERSCaptain · March 22, 1969
- THOMAS MICHAEL HUXSpecialist Five · September 8, 1969
- HENRY RAY EXPOSEPrivate First Class · August 26, 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.