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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Norman Wallace Johnson.

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NORMAN WALLACE JOHNSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 11, 1942 – December 5, 1965

Service record

Norman Wallace Johnson, of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 128

Position of Panel 3E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 11, 1942
Home of record
Mckeesport, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1965
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 128

Same unit, same day

From Mckeesport

All 23 names from Mckeesport →

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.