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EDWARD FRANK GOLD
Commander · U.S. Navy
January 30, 1927 – December 22, 1965
Service recordEdward Frank Gold, of Sanford, Florida, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on December 22, 1965, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Naval Flight Officer (1320)
- Born
- January 30, 1927
- Home of record
- Sanford, Florida (Seminole County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 22, 1965
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1965. In December 1965, 326 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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 34
- BILLIE JACK CARTWRIGHTCaptain · December 12, 1965
- JIMMIE RAY ISBELLSpecialist Four · December 21, 1965
- ALFRED LOUIS SPITZFADENPrivate First Class · December 21, 1965
- MAX DUANE LUKENBACHCommander · December 22, 1965
From Sanford
- TERRY DENVER CORDELLCaptain · October 15, 1962
- CHARLES A GAINESSergeant · May 21, 1966
- MICHEAL JOHN DRAKEPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- SHELTON MORGANPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- CHRISTOPHER ANDREWSPrivate First Class · December 3, 1967
- PATRICK LINDSEY HALLPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD HALLSergeant First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES WOOD GRANTSpecialist Four · May 7, 1968
- JOSEPH RICHARD JONESPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
- WILLIAM DALE STOVALLPrivate First Class · October 31, 1968
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.