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1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment
GOLDEN DRAGONS
25th Infantry Division
  

Maj. Raymond Eugene Johnson

Age 32

Headquarters & Headquarters Company
Died:  July 19, 1966

On the morning of the 19th Alpha Company came under attack and successfully defeated the enemy.  Then Captain Raymond Johnson, the relatively new S-3 came in by helicopter to pick up First Sergeant Nagato of A Company and also to tag enemy equipment policed up by 1st platoon of A Company.  When everything was loaded on the chopper, it departed the area and was flying parallel to the Ia Drang River when it collided with a L-19 type aircraft.  Losing its main rotor, it tumbled to the ground below and immediately burst into flames, killing Captain Johnson, First Sergeant Nagato, the two pilots and two gunners.  The pilot of the L19 was also killed when his ship landed on the west side of the Ia Drang River.

Maj. Johnson was from Lake City, Florida.

Length of service 10 years
His tour began on Dec 27, 1965
Casualty was on Jul 19, 1966
In  SOUTH VIETNAM
NON-HOSTILE, HELICOPTER
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered

 

Maj. Raymond Eugene Johnson

 

OUR HONORED DEAD