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JOHNNY MACK WATSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 28, 1949 – June 19, 1970
Service recordJohnny Mack Watson, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 71
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 19, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1970. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 71
- LARRY ROBERT LADDSpecialist Four · June 19, 1970
- WILLIAM ROBERT BONNERSpecialist Four · June 20, 1970
- MARK CURTIS BRANTLEYSergeant · June 20, 1970
- ROBERT F COLATRUGLIOWarrant Officer 1 · June 20, 1970
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL WILLIAM NOTERMANNSergeant · Panel 9W, Line 69
- RONALD RICHARD STEWARTPrivate First Class · Panel 9W, Line 70
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 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.