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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 Ronnie Lloyd Johnson.

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RONNIE LLOYD JOHNSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 5, 1951 – April 11, 1970

Service record

Ronnie Lloyd Johnson, of Meeker, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1970, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12W · Line 124

Position of Panel 12W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
February 5, 1951
Home of record
Meeker, Oklahoma (Lincoln County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1970
Age
19
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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25 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1970; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 12W, Line 124

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.