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NORMAN LEE EVERSGERD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 21, 1949 – August 18, 1968
Service recordNorman Lee Eversgerd, of Germantown, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 41
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- February 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Germantown, Illinois (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 41
- ALVIS RAY FAVERTY JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 18, 1968
- GERALD MARION GISCHERPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- PATRICK JOSEPH GRIFFINPetty Officer Third Class · August 18, 1968
- WILLIAM ALFRED HADSOCKPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
From Germantown
- MARLIN CHRIS EVERSGERDSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- HERBERT CYRIL LANGENHORSTCorporal · October 18, 1968
- RALPH BERNARD ORTMANNCorporal · July 2, 1969
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.