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WALTER BILLY M JOHNSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 1, 1937 – April 14, 1969
Service recordWalter Billy M Johnson, of Union Point, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 82
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 1, 1937
- Home of record
- Union Point, Georgia (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1969
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1969; two of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 82
- CHARLES DAVID CROSBYPrivate First Class · April 14, 1969
- FRANCISCO LICONLance Corporal · April 14, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM MOORE JRSergeant · April 14, 1969
- ALEXANDER DUANE NEIBAUERLance Corporal · April 14, 1969
From Union Point
- LARRY EUGENE WORTHENPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
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.