JOHNNY M TINNEY
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HONORED ON PANEL 5W, LINE 89 OF THE WALL

JOHNNY MACK TINNEY

WALL NAME

JOHNNY M TINNEY

PANEL / LINE

5W/89

DATE OF BIRTH

08/02/1950

CASUALTY PROVINCE

BINH TUY

DATE OF CASUALTY

02/08/1971

HOME OF RECORD

HUNTSVILLE

COUNTY OF RECORD

Walker County

STATE

TX

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

CPL

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR JOHNNY MACK TINNEY
POSTED ON 2.8.2024
POSTED BY: John Fabris

honoring you....

Say not in grief he is no more, but live in thankfulness that he was.
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POSTED ON 10.1.2023
POSTED BY: James Alexander

Cpl Johnny Mack Tinney

My Uncle, we were Both born on 2 August a couple of years apart. You were close to 6’ 4-6 inches tall. Walked Point for 7 months lost not one Man on Patrol with Leading. They Day you were killed you were carrying the Radio for the Sgt or Lt. Your Friend Billy Johnson was carry the other Radio …
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POSTED ON 8.5.2022
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear Cpl Johnny Tinney, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman with the 1st Cavalry. Your 72nd birthday was 3 days ago, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Yesterday was the 58th anniversary of the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 7.29.2020
POSTED BY: ANON

Never forgotten

CPL Johnny Mack Tinney is buried at Center Hill Cemetery in Oakhurst, TX.

He served with C Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, US Army Vietnam (COFFELT DATABASE).

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH
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POSTED ON 2.4.2017

Final Mission of PFC Johnny M. Tinney

PFC Johnny M. Tinney was an infantryman serving with C Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. On February 8, 1971, he was a passenger on a U.S. Army UH-1H helicopter (#66-16781) involved in a troop lift for a combat assault in Binh Thuy Province, RVN. Aircraft 781 was number three of five aircraft on the mission. These aircraft were going into the landing zone (LZ) single-ship, landing from west to east. The first two aircraft had completed their troop drop off and had departed the LZ, when a popping noise was heard. At this time both crew members unfastened their seat belts and looked toward the rear of the aircraft seeing smoke and some sparks coming from around the rear engine cowling. The tail rotor started slowing down at this time. The aircraft commander tried to regain translational lift by nosing the aircraft over to regain airspeed. The aircraft started turning to the right and did several 360-degree turns. At this time, the two crew members tried to refasten their seat belts but were unable to due to the turning of the aircraft. The aircraft commander moved the aircraft away from the LZ to over the trees because of the troops on the ground around the LZ. The aircraft commander initiated an autorotation into the trees, entering the trees in a tail-low attitude. As the aircraft settled into the trees, the tail boom struck a tree approximately 80 feet above the ground and became lodged there. The fuselage then broke away and fell to the ground spinning, landing upright at the base of the same tree the tail boom was lodged in. The aircraft impacted the ground on the lower right side and in a pitch-level attitude. It was believed by the survivors on the aircraft that PFC Tinney was fatally injured when he was struck by a tree limb as the aircraft fell to the ground. The crew members of the aircraft helped evacuate the other injured passengers after impact. The injured personnel were medivacked to FSB Mace for first aid, then to the 93rd Evacuation Hospital at Long Binh. The aircraft was a total loss. Tinney was posthumously promoted to corporal. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and togetherweserved.com]
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