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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Victor Johnson JR.

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VICTOR JOHNSON JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 9, 1944 – March 7, 1969

Service record

Victor Johnson JR, of Belen, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 65

Position of Panel 30W 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
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 9, 1944
Home of record
Belen, Mississippi (Quitman County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 7, 1969
Age
24
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

45 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1969; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 65

Same unit, same day

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.