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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Junior Johnson.

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RAYMOND JUNIOR JOHNSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 12, 1946 – April 4, 1968

Service record

Raymond Junior Johnson, of Hamilton, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48E · Line 5

Position of Panel 48E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
82 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
January 12, 1946
Home of record
Hamilton, Ohio (Butler County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 4, 1968
Age
22
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48E, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From Hamilton

All 42 names from Hamilton →

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.