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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Emory Norton.

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JOHN EMORY NORTON

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

October 18, 1951 – December 29, 1970

Service record

John Emory Norton, of Ft Oglethorpe-Lake, Georgia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 29, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 5W · Line 14

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 18, 1951
Home of record
Ft Oglethorpe-Lake, Georgia (Catoosa County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 29, 1970
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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Four names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.