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ROGER KAY NORTON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 27, 1948 – July 4, 1967
Service recordRoger Kay Norton, of Auburn, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 4, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 5
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- February 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Auburn, Illinois (Sangamon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- 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 July 4, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 5
- CHARLES HENRY MCFARLANDCorporal · July 4, 1967
- RICHARD LEE MCKINNELLPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES NELSONLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
- MELVIN EARL NEWLINPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JOE OVERMYERLance Corporal · Panel 23E, Line 6
- FRANK MARTIN PIETRASLance Corporal · Panel 23E, Line 6
- STANLEY HOUSTON SULLIVANPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 7
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.