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NORMAND EDWARD FONTAINE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 24, 1949 – May 8, 1968
Service recordNormand Edward Fontaine, of Westport, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 2
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 24, 1949
- Home of record
- Westport, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 2
- DAVID STEARNS EASTONSpecialist Four · May 8, 1968
- ELLIS LOVINE FAIRCLOTHSpecialist Five · May 8, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES FIFFEPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- DAVID FOSTER FLETCHERLance Corporal · May 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ESTEN ABBOTT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 34
- GREG ALAN DUBOISPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 1
- ELLIS LOVINE FAIRCLOTHSpecialist Five · Panel 57E, Line 2
- MICHAEL JOSEPH FORDICorporal · Panel 57E, Line 3
- RICHARD GONZALEZSergeant · Panel 57E, Line 3
- JOHN FRANCIS MORANSergeant · Panel 57E, Line 6
- JOHN WILLIAM VIKTORYN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 11
- ROOSEVELT WHITEPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 12
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.