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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 Warner Lindsey.

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JOHNNY WARNER LINDSEY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 12, 1945 – January 19, 1968

Service record

Johnny Warner Lindsey, of Fredonia, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 19, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34E · Line 79

Position of Panel 34E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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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
July 12, 1945
Home of record
Fredonia, Kentucky (Caldwell County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 19, 1968
Age
22
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date January 19, 1968; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34E, Line 79

Same unit, same day

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.