Rank: Sergeant
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 18-Oct-1948
Hometown: Wells, Minnesota
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 6-Dec-1967
Start of tour: 27-May-1968
Incident date: 13-Apr-1969
Date of casualty: 13-Apr-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Bruce Ervin Johnson was killed while on combat operation when encountered a hostile force. / On combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Ten Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Larry Bruce Barfield
SP4 Robert Jay Brinkman
SFC Harry Payne Burton Jr
SP4 Charles Chandler
SP4 Gary John Dasher
SSG Harold Lee Greever
SP4 Kenneth Vern Jensen
SGT Bruce Ervin Johnson
SGT Terry Edward Jones
SGT Joseph Anthony Oreto
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 428 557
Place of interment: Saint Casimir Cemetery, Wells, Minnesota, USA
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