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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 Doyle Hall Parson.

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DOYLE HALL PARSON

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

October 11, 1932 – December 30, 1969

Service record

Doyle Hall Parson, of Weeping Water, Nebraska, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 30, 1969, in Bac Lieu Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 15W · Line 109

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Boatswain's Mate (BM)
Unit (as recorded)
MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 13 ASLT DIV 13
Born
October 11, 1932
Home of record
Weeping Water, Nebraska (Cass County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 30, 1969
Age
37
Province
Bac Lieu
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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21 names on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bac Lieu Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Weeping Water

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.