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NORMAN ELLIOTT LODHOLM
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 10, 1948 – June 13, 1968
Service recordNorman Elliott Lodholm, of Forks, Washington, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Forks, Washington (Clallam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 8
- JOHN CHARLES CUPPCorporal · June 13, 1968
- JEFFREY LYNN DARGANPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- WAYNE AUSTIN DECKERPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- GARY GENE EVANSSpecialist Four · June 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY GENE EVANSSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 8
- EDMOND JUNIOR GREERCorporal · Panel 57W, Line 9
- JAMES LEWIS JENNINGSPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 10
- KENNETH OSCAR PALMERSergeant First Class · Panel 57W, Line 12
- CRAIG LEE SEIDELSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 13
- MILO HERSEY STRATTONSergeant · Panel 57W, Line 14
From Forks
- VERNON EUGENE DEPEWLance Corporal · May 20, 1967
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.