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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Johnny Ralph Lynn.

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JOHNNY RALPH LYNN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 26, 1948 – March 5, 1969

Service record

Johnny Ralph Lynn, of Hillsboro, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 47

Position of Panel 30W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 26, 1948
Home of record
Hillsboro, Tennessee (Coffee County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 5, 1969
Age
20
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 174 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 47

Same unit, same day

From Hillsboro

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.