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JOHNNY RAY KING
Corporal · U.S. Army
November 21, 1948 – April 8, 1968
Service recordJohnny Ray King, of Cash, Arkansas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Cash, Arkansas (Craighead County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 53
- JOHN HAROLD BERGPrivate First Class · April 8, 1968
- ARTHUR WALTON HUNT IIICorporal · April 8, 1968
- ALAN PETER JONESSergeant · April 8, 1968
- STEVE DENNIS LEDFORDPetty Officer Third Class · April 8, 1968
- PAUL LEWIS SAWYER JRFirst Lieutenant · April 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR WALTON HUNT IIICorporal · Panel 48E, Line 53
- ALAN PETER JONESSergeant · Panel 48E, Line 53
- ARTHUR J WEINPERCorporal · Panel 48E, Line 56
From Cash
- HARVEY CHARLES AVERYStaff Sergeant · March 19, 1969
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.