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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 Timothy John Norman.

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TIMOTHY JOHN NORMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 15, 1949 – February 19, 1970

Service record

Timothy John Norman, of Beloit, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 33

Position of Panel 13W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
April 15, 1949
Home of record
Beloit, Wisconsin (Rock County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 19, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1970; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 33

Same unit, same day

From Beloit

All 14 names from Beloit →

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.