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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 Roy Everett.

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NORMAN ROY EVERETT

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

November 23, 1947 – January 25, 1970

Service record

Norman Roy Everett, of Trenton, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1970, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 64

Position of Panel 14W 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 Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
November 23, 1947
Home of record
Trenton, New Jersey (Mercer County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 25, 1970
Age
22
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 64

Same unit, same day

From Trenton

All 51 names from Trenton →

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.