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THEODORE RUSSELL NELSON
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 19, 1943 – May 18, 1967
Service recordTheodore Russell Nelson, of Austin, Minnesota, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 33
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- October 19, 1943
- Home of record
- Austin, Minnesota (Mower County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 33
- JAMES CLIFTON OFFLEYPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- PHILIP JOHN OLOFSONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- RONNY LEROY PALMERSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
- JEARL EDWARD RIMMERSergeant · May 18, 1967
From Austin
- JERRY IRVEN HELLANDPrivate First Class · February 5, 1966
- TRACY STEPHEN TENHOFFLance Corporal · November 13, 1966
- STEVEN JOHN STROUBSpecialist Five · February 5, 1968
- NORMAN LEE HINKLESpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- DENNIS CLARENCE JERDETPrivate First Class · October 11, 1968
- ELMER EUGENE FREESECorporal · November 23, 1968
- JAN PAUL CHRISTENSENFirst Lieutenant · January 15, 1969
- STEPHEN DUANE JOHNSONSergeant · June 3, 1969
- JEAN ARTHUR KEARBYLieutenant Colonel · June 23, 1969
- PHILIP OWEN RICHARDSONSergeant · August 12, 1969
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.