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KENNETH DEAN NORTON
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
August 19, 1944 – October 7, 1969
Service recordKenneth Dean Norton, of Lady Lake, Florida, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 7, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 48
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- August 19, 1944
- Home of record
- Lady Lake, Florida (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 7, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date October 7, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 48
- MICHAEL KAY KNIGHTSpecialist Four · October 7, 1969
- ROBERT LEE SHEPPARD JRSpecialist Four · October 7, 1969
- ROOSEVELT WALLACECorporal · October 7, 1969
- LOUIS BASIL ALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1969
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.