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EDGAR ARTHUR RAWSTHORNE
Commander · U.S. Navy
October 3, 1925 – December 29, 1965
Service recordEdgar Arthur Rawsthorne, of Miramar, California, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 29, 1965, in Laos, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 45
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
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VF 92 USS ENTERPRISE CVAN 65
- Born
- October 3, 1925
- Home of record
- Miramar, California (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1965
- Age
- 40
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VF 92 USS ENTERPRISE CVAN 65”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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 4E, Line 45
- WILLIAM A BURNETTPrivate First Class · December 29, 1965
- ARTHUR SINCLAIR HILL JRLieutenant · December 29, 1965
- THOMAS EDWARD MURRAYCorporal · December 29, 1965
- THOMAS PETER SIMCHOCKPrivate First Class · December 29, 1965
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR SINCLAIR HILL JRLieutenant · Panel 4E, Line 45
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.