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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Toivo Bernhard Nomm.

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TOIVO BERNHARD NOMM

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 2, 1952 – June 24, 1971

Service record

Toivo Bernhard Nomm, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1971, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 87

Position of Panel 3W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Petroleum Supply Specialist (76W)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
March 2, 1952
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 24, 1971
Age
19
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Six names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1971; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 87

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.