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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Lee Johnson.

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RONALD LEE JOHNSON

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

March 1, 1943 – April 10, 1967

Service record

Ronald Lee Johnson, of Ogden, Utah, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 10

Position of Panel 18E 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander (1204)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 1, 1943
Home of record
Ogden, Utah (Weber County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 10, 1967
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Ogden

All 30 names from Ogden →

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.