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CHARLES BERNARD GOODWIN
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
August 2, 1940 – September 8, 1965
Service recordCharles Bernard Goodwin, of Haskell, Texas, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on September 8, 1965, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 78
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 Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VFP 63
- Born
- August 2, 1940
- Home of record
- Haskell, Texas (Haskell County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 8, 1965
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1965. In September 1965, 150 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.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 2E, Line 78
- GEOFFREY EMMONS GREENFirst Lieutenant · September 8, 1965
- ROBERT DAVID RUDOLPHLieutenant (junior grade) · September 8, 1965
- BARNEY EVANS BOYERCorporal · September 9, 1965
- LEONARD JOHN DADANTEFirst Lieutenant · September 9, 1965
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.