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PETER WYETH JOHNSON
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 31, 1944 – February 13, 1968
Service recordPeter Wyeth Johnson, of Wilton, Connecticut, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 22
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 31, 1944
- Home of record
- Wilton, Connecticut (Fairfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 22
- DANIEL ALAN HILDEBRANDTPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
- DONALD LETASecond Lieutenant · February 13, 1968
- PERFECTO NUNEZ LOPEZLance Corporal · February 13, 1968
- CHARLES RICHARD MORGANPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
From Wilton
- SAMUEL DIGGES FREEMAN IIICaptain · January 7, 1967
- JOHN GEYER CORRSecond Lieutenant · December 28, 1967
- STEPHEN TUCKER PERRYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1969
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.