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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carl Raymond Goodfellow.

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CARL RAYMOND GOODFELLOW

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

November 25, 1942 – December 23, 1967

Service record

Carl Raymond Goodfellow, of Waterproof, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 23, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 50

Position of Panel 32E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Unit (as recorded)
CTF 115 COSRON 1
Born
November 25, 1942
Home of record
Waterproof, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
December 23, 1967
Age
25
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 50

From Waterproof

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.