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FRANCIS MURTAUGH DRISCOLL
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
November 23, 1942 – February 29, 1968
Service recordFrancis Murtaugh Driscoll, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on February 29, 1968, in Laos, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 4
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. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 AF
- Born
- November 23, 1942
- Home of record
- Attleboro, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 AF”, 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42E, Line 4
- CARL LESTER DOWNSLance Corporal · February 29, 1968
- JOHN DAVID LOCKW DUFFIELDPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE ELLISSpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
- EARL ERWIN JRSpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CROSLEY JAMES FITTON JRLieutenant Colonel · Panel 42E, Line 5
From Attleboro
- JOSEPH ELWIN NIMIROSKICorporal · December 18, 1965
- RICHARD CUNNINGHAM GLIDDENCaptain · February 13, 1967
- GARY FRANCIS FLYNNLance Corporal · September 13, 1967
- JOSEPH ERNEST FALARDEAUSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
- LAURENCE OLIVER WOODSONLance Corporal · September 10, 1968
- HUBERT DANIEL SUTTONSpecialist Five · October 5, 1969
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.