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LEE EDWARD NORDAHL
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
June 18, 1939 – December 20, 1965
Service recordLee Edward Nordahl, of Choteau, Montana, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on December 20, 1965, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 29
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 Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1325)
- Unit (as recorded)
- RVAH 13 USS KITTY HAWK CVA 63
- Born
- June 18, 1939
- Home of record
- Choteau, Montana (Teton County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 20, 1965
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “RVAH 13 USS KITTY HAWK CVA 63”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 4E, Line 29
- NELS WILLIAM SWANSONPrivate First Class · December 19, 1965
- SAMUEL LEE WOODSPrivate First Class · December 19, 1965
- CHESTER EUGENE WORMAN JRLance Corporal · December 19, 1965
- RUSSELL VIVEIROS ALMEIDALance Corporal · December 20, 1965
From Choteau
- JAMES EDWARD UNDERWOODMajor · May 16, 1965
- ROGER WILLIAM HOODCorporal · April 13, 1969
- THOMAS ALBERT DELLWOFirst Lieutenant · March 15, 1971
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.