David Harold Johnson
Private First Class
A CO, 4TH BN, 503RD INFANTRY, 173RD ABN BDE, USARV
Army of the United States
Jonesboro, Arkansas
July 13, 1948 to July 10, 1967
DAVID H JOHNSON is on the Wall at Panel 23E, Line 42

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David H Johnson
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18 Jan 2008

REMEMBERED

by a first cousin,
Bill and Renee Clark
clarknaepc@aol.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

The 4/503rd was rapidly deployed to the Central Highlands after the Battle of the Slopes. On 10 July, moving up Hill 830 about 12 kilometers south of Ben Het, A Company came under intense fire from an entrenched Viet Cong main force battalion. On 12 July, after taking the hill, D Company discovered a single network consisting of 60 bunkers with supporting foxholes. In short order, two more bunker complexes were discovered.

The fighting on 10 July cost 26 American lives; ten of the dead were from A Company, 4/503rd:


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