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NORMAN GEORGE TOENNIES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 13, 1946 – December 21, 1966
Service recordNorman George Toennies, of Albers, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Albers, Illinois (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 69
- JAMES CRABB MCINTOSHLieutenant Colonel · December 21, 1966
- LUIS OLMOSPrivate First Class · December 21, 1966
- ERNEST ORTEGASergeant · December 21, 1966
- BERNARD EDWARD STJEANCorporal · December 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD LEROY BROCKSergeant · Panel 13E, Line 66
- SPOTSWOOD DEWITTFirst Lieutenant · Panel 13E, Line 67
- MARVIN THOMAS HUGHESSergeant · Panel 13E, Line 67
- WILLIAM DONALD MULLINSStaff Sergeant · Panel 13E, Line 68
- VICENTE ZUNIGASpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 70
From Albers
- GERALD BERNARD SCHMIDTLance Corporal · March 20, 1966
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.