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JAY ROY NORMAN
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
February 22, 1939 – August 29, 1967
Service recordJay Roy Norman, of Bluff City, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 29, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- February 22, 1939
- Home of record
- Bluff City, Arkansas (Nevada County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 61
- SHAREL EDWARD BALESFirst Lieutenant · August 29, 1967
- RUSSELL REID BANNISTERSergeant · August 29, 1967
- RUTILIO PROFIRIO CORDOVASergeant · August 29, 1967
- FRED BURKETT CRADDOCK JRCorporal · August 29, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.