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MITCHELL EARL NORTON
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 14, 1945 – June 25, 1969
Service recordMitchell Earl Norton, of Marietta, Georgia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 25, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 14
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. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 14, 1945
- Home of record
- Marietta, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 25, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date June 25, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 14
- TERRY ALLEN LOFFERCorporal · June 25, 1969
- STEPHEN GREGORY MAUSENSpecialist Four · June 25, 1969
- HERBERT LEONARD MEGAR JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1969
- CALVIN CHARLES RICE JRStaff Sergeant · June 25, 1969
From Marietta
- WILLIAM BAYLES CAWTHORNESecond Lieutenant · June 30, 1964
- ROY LEE CASTLEBERRYPetty Officer Second Class · May 24, 1967
- JOEL CLYDE ROPERPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY MCCOLLUMPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- JOHNNY JUERGEN JUNKINSCorporal · March 8, 1968
- WILLIE EDWARD GLOVERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- PATRICK HENRY COOK JRSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE HERRENCorporal · May 27, 1968
- KIRBY LYNN HAMBYSpecialist Four · June 8, 1968
- EUGENE RICHARDSON IIILance Corporal · June 21, 1968
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.