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Williams Johnny G.

Name:
Johnny G. Williams
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
34060256
Unit:
76th Engineer Light Pontoon Company
Date of Death:
1944-08-19
State:
Georgia
Cemetery:
Manila American Cemetery, Taguig, Philippines
Plot:
Walls of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:

Johnny G. Williams was born in 1917 in Georgia. He resided in Rockdale County, Georgia prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on March 28, 1941, prior to the war, at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Driver and also as Single, without dependents. Johnny served as a Staff Sergeant, 76th Engineer Light Pontoon Company, U.S. Army during World War II.

Johnny was a passenger on C-47A #43-30640. He was declared "Missing In Action" when this C-47A, while on an Air Supply trip between Shinbweyang Air Port, Myanmar and Myitkyina Airport, Myanmar, went missing during the war on August 19, 1944. Johnny was not officially declared as being dead by the military until August 20, 1945, 1 year and 1 day after he went missing as was the custom. His name is commemorated on the Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines.

He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is also commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China but his name is inscribed as Johnnie.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov