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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Norman Joseph Geo Spenard.

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NORMAN JOSEPH GEO SPENARD

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 31, 1945 – December 5, 1965

Service record

Norman Joseph Geo Spenard, of Springdale, Connecticut, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 5, 1965, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 133 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 3E · Line 133

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
December 31, 1945
Home of record
Springdale, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1965
Age
19
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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49 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1965; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 3E, Line 133

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.