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CARL LOUIS DOUGHTIE
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
November 18, 1940 – June 10, 1965
Service recordCarl Louis Doughtie, of Tarboro, North Carolina, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 10, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 4
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
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Born
- November 18, 1940
- Home of record
- Tarboro, North Carolina (Edgecombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 10, 1965
- Age
- 24
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1965. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 4
- JOSEPH JAMES COMPA JRStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROBERT LEE CURLEE JRStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- RAYMOND CLARENCE GALBRAITHChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 10, 1965
From Tarboro
- FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT THORPELance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- HOWARD ARNOLD SESSOMSStaff Sergeant · June 21, 1967
- CICERO WHITFIELD JRSpecialist Four · August 22, 1967
- HUGH ELROY BEST IIIFirst Lieutenant · January 29, 1969
- GEORGE ELMER CANNON SRStaff Sergeant · August 6, 1969
- BOBBY EUGENE JONESSpecialist Four · January 30, 1970
- WILLIAM I ALLSBROOK JRPrivate First Class · October 2, 1970
- THOMAS REUBEN BRADLEYSpecialist Four · November 21, 1970
- WILLIAM HASSELL THIGPENFirst Lieutenant · January 16, 1971
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.