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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Johnny Villarreal.

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JOHNNY VILLARREAL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 15, 1944 – December 10, 1967

Service record

Johnny Villarreal, of Victoria, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 76

Position of Panel 31E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
April 15, 1944
Home of record
Victoria, Texas (Victoria County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 10, 1967
Age
23
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1967; three of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 76

Same unit, same day

From Victoria

All 17 names from Victoria →

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.