HONORED ON PANEL 1W, LINE 107 OF THE WALL
ALLEN LOUIS JOHNSON
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ALLEN L JOHNSON
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1W/107
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LEFT FOR ALLEN LOUIS JOHNSON
POSTED ON 1.3.2023
POSTED BY: John Fabris
honoring you...
Some may think you are forgotten
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were beforeā¦.
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were beforeā¦.
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POSTED ON 3.19.2021
POSTED BY: Donna Moore
Happy Heavenly Birthday
You will forever remain in our hearts and prayers
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POSTED ON 3.13.2021
POSTED BY: ANON
Never forgotten
LTC Allen Louis Johnson was shot down December 28, 1972. At the end of the Vietnam War, he nor his remains were returned with the release of the POW's. On December 4, 1985, his remains were repatriated.
LTC Allen Louis Johnson is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Tuscumbia, AL. Your sacrifice is not forgotten.
Welcome Home, Colonel.
LTC Allen Louis Johnson is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Tuscumbia, AL. Your sacrifice is not forgotten.
Welcome Home, Colonel.
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POSTED ON 12.31.2020
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Operation Linebacker II - December 18-29, 1972
Operation Linebacker II was a U.S. 7th Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombing campaign, conducted against targets in North Vietnam during the final period of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The operation took place December 18-29, 1972, leading to several informal names such as "The December Raids" and "The Christmas Bombings." Linebacker II was a "maximum effort" bombing campaign to destroy major target complexes in the Hanoi and Haiphong areas, which could only be accomplished by B-52s. It saw the largest heavy bomber strikes launched by the U.S. Air Force since the end of World War II. During Operation Linebacker II, a total of 741 B-52 sorties were dispatched to bomb North Vietnam; 729 completed their missions. B-52s dropped a total of 15,237 tons of ordnance on eighteen industrial and fourteen military targets, including eight surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites, while fighter-bombers added another 5,000 tons of bombs to the tally. Another 212 B-52 missions were flown within South Vietnam in support of ground operations during the campaign. North Vietnamese forces fired about 1,240 SAMs. The Air Force lost 15 B-52 bombers, which amounted to a loss rate of less than two percent. Ten B-52s were shot down over the North and five others were damaged and crashed in Laos or Thailand. Thirty-three B-52 crew members were killed or missing in action, another thirty-three became prisoners of war, and twenty-six more were rescued. The lost B-52 crewmen included SMSGT Walter L. Ferguson, LTC Donald L. Rissi, CAPT Robert J. Thomas, MAJ Richard W. Cooper Jr., CMSGT Charlie S. Poole, MAJ Irwin S. Lerner, CMSGT Arthur V. McLaughlin Jr., LTC Randolph A. Perry Jr., LTC John F. Stuart, CAPT Craig A. Paul, MAJ Warren R. Spencer, MSGT Charles J. Bebus, COL Keith R. Heggen, COL Edward H. Johnson, MAJ Robert R. Lynn, CAPT Donovan K. Walters, CAPT Randall J. Craddock, MAJ Charles E. Darr, COL Bobby A. Kirby, CAPT George B. Lockhart, CAPT Ronald D. Perry, COL Frank A. Gould, COL Gerald W. Alley, MAJ Thomas W. Bennett Jr., CAPT Joseph B. Copack Jr., CAPT Robert J. Morris Jr., MAJ Nutter J. Wimbrow III, LTC Donald A. Joyner, MAJ Lawrence J. Marshall, CAPT Roy T. Tabler, CAPT James M. Turner, 1LT Bennie L. Fryer, and LTC Allen L. Johnson. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, wikipedia.org, and airforcemag.com]
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