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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William F Johnson.

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WILLIAM F JOHNSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 16, 1945 – January 5, 1967

Service record

William F Johnson, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 116

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
September 16, 1945
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 5, 1967
Age
21
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 116

From Los Angeles

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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.