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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 Williams.

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JOHNNY WILLIAMS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 7, 1945 – January 9, 1968

Service record

Johnny Williams, of Durham, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 9, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34E · Line 12

Position of Panel 34E 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)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
December 7, 1945
Home of record
Durham, North Carolina (Durham County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 9, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date January 9, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34E, Line 12

Same unit, same day

From Durham

All 38 names from Durham →

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.