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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Norman Carl Farris.

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NORMAN CARL FARRIS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 26, 1941 – November 21, 1966

Service record

Norman Carl Farris, of Springfield, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 100

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 26, 1941
Home of record
Springfield, Massachusetts (Hampden County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 100

Same unit, same day

From Springfield

All 47 names from Springfield →

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.