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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Norris Felton Johnson.

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NORRIS FELTON JOHNSON

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 19, 1947 – January 10, 1968

Service record

Norris Felton Johnson, of Tampa, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34E · Line 21

Position of Panel 34E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
September 19, 1947
Home of record
Tampa, Florida (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 10, 1968
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

70 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34E, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Tampa

All 122 names from Tampa →

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.