Bio, Norris, Thomas E.

NORRIS, THOMAS ELMER

Name: Thomas Elmer Norris
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record: Godfrey IL
Date of Loss: 12 August 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 212100 North 1054200 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
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Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews. 2023

REMARKS: 730314 RELEASED BY DRV

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Thomas Norris retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He and
his wife Linda reside in Texas.

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In January 1996, Col. Norris received the following letter, through the
National League of Families:

"During my recent visit to the Ukraine I came across captain's ID cards held
by a military memorabilia dealer (a colonel in Reserves) who gave me the
copies of these two documents and assured me that he will send me the
originals if I succeed in locating the captain. If Mr. Norris is interested
in getting those two ID cards (ID card # 6377593, issued to Capt. Norris on
January 10, 1967 by the Armed Forces of the United States and the Geneva
Convention Identification Card) he should notify me to this effect and I
will be delighted to write the Ukraine and request that they be sent to me.
I hope the chap in Ukraine will keep his promise."

Sincerely,
(signed)
Zenon Iwasykiw

Zenon also received a letter from the POW/MIA office of the Pentagon hoping
they could speak to his contact in the Ukraine.

Hi Chuck and Mary,

I made a movie on my IMAC about my tour in Vietnam. About half of the 50

min movie is my own 8mm film and the rest is from other sources. It is

available for viewing on Craig Bakers website at www.burrusspta.org/thud.

On the home page click on the F-105 movies and that page will have the

thumbnail for the movie. Don't know why I didn't offer it to you before.

Craig's brother helped me with some of the History channel stuff and

wanted to post the movie so we edited out some of the family parts and he

posted it on the web site. Hope you enjoy "Memories of Vietnam'.

Tom Norris

Tom's lovely wife Linda, died six days after open heart surgery on April 25, 2021.

Linda, was an MIA wife for six years. She worked with Ross Perot and the San Antonio
area MIA/POW wives to improve our treatment. She worked closely with the Thompson's
and the local chapter of the River Rats. She was instrumental in the design and location of the
missing man monument on Randolph. She was given her own personal miniature of the monument.