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JOHN DOUGLAS PRUDHOMME
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
November 15, 1937 – December 22, 1965
Service recordJohn Douglas Prudhomme, of Tipp City, Ohio, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 22, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 35
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 76 USS ENTERPRISE CVAN 65
- Born
- November 15, 1937
- Home of record
- Tipp City, Ohio (Miami County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 22, 1965
- Age
- 28
- Country
- North Vietnam
- 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
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
Also on Panel 4E, Line 35
- JOHN FREDERICK ASHMANLance Corporal · December 23, 1965
- PAUL DAVID BERTHIAUMECaptain · December 23, 1965
- JAMES A GRUEZKEWarrant Officer 1 · December 23, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 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.