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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Johnny Wendell Phillips.

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JOHNNY WENDELL PHILLIPS

Corporal · U.S. Army

September 24, 1949 – June 21, 1969

Service record

Johnny Wendell Phillips, of Eustace, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 108

Position of Panel 22W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 24, 1949
Home of record
Eustace, Texas (Henderson County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 21, 1969
Age
19
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

45 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 108

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.