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NORMAN LAFOREST MCKENNEY
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
November 2, 1939 – June 6, 1968
Service recordNorman Laforest McKenney, of Thorndike, Maine, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 6, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 9
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Electronics Technician (Submarine) (ET)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- November 2, 1939
- Home of record
- Thorndike, Maine (Waldo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; four of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 9
- ALFRED MCCULLOUGHPlatoon Sergeant · June 6, 1968
- LARRY HAROLD MORGANSpecialist Five · June 6, 1968
- WILLIAM T MORRIS IIILieutenant (junior grade) · June 6, 1968
- ANDREW PERRY JRCorporal · June 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANTHONY BARTOW BROWNPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 60W, Line 25
From Thorndike
- CLAIR HALL THURSTON JRSecond Lieutenant · November 8, 1965
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.