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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Normand Louis Beaulieu.

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NORMAND LOUIS BEAULIEU

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

October 20, 1946 – June 2, 1967

Service record

Normand Louis Beaulieu, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 2, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 31

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
I CO 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
Born
October 20, 1946
Home of record
New Bedford, Massachusetts (Bristol County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 2, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1967; 33 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “I CO 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 31

Same unit, same day

From New Bedford

All 26 names from New Bedford →

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.