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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Norman Maxie.

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NORMAN MAXIE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 30, 1950 – July 19, 1971

Service record

Norman Maxie, of Albany, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 111

Position of Panel 3W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
January 30, 1950
Home of record
Albany, Georgia (Dougherty County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 19, 1971
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1971, 118 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 111

From Albany

All 34 names from Albany →

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.