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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 Matthew Johnson JR.

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MATTHEW JOHNSON JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 23, 1943 – November 3, 1967

Service record

Matthew Johnson JR, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 3, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 16

Position of Panel 29E 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
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
I BTRY 9 ARTY
Born
March 23, 1943
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 3, 1967
Age
24
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1967; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 16

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.