JOHN WAYNE JOHNSON

Battery A 4/42 Artillery

4th Infantry Division

KIA 09/07/1968

Age: 21
Race: Negro
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Jul 14, 1947
From: LEESBURG, FL
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single

SGT - E5 - Army - Regular
Grade at loss: E4
Rank: Sergeant
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 13A10: Field Artillery
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Jul 2, 1968
Casualty was on Sep 7, 1968
In QUANG DUC, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

Panel 45W - Line 62

John Johnson was killed in action while on Operation Mac Arthur/Binh Tay,
during a sapper attack on FSB Lance, at grid reference YU887714, approximately
4 kilometers south/southwest of Duc Lap airfield.

SGT John W. Johnson's decorations

The entry in his High School yearbook for John Wayne Johnson

Courtesy of Jennifer

John W. Johnson is buried in Macedonia Cemetery in Preston Georgia

Grave marker for John Wayne Johnson

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