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LOYAL BARON DOTY
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
September 20, 1937 – February 9, 1968
Service recordLoyal Baron Doty, of Moundsville, West Virginia, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 9, 1968, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radioman (RM)
- Born
- September 20, 1937
- Home of record
- Moundsville, West Virginia (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 48
- DONALD EDWARD DAWSON JRSergeant · February 9, 1968
- CLYDE LAWRENCE DEMELLOCorporal · February 9, 1968
- ARNOLD MAX DURYEAPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- STANTON RICHARD DYKELance Corporal · February 9, 1968
From Moundsville
- KERMIT HAROLD YOHOSpecialist Four · February 10, 1966
- JOSEPH CLAIR AUSTINColonel · March 19, 1967
- LEONARD JOE ZELASKI JRLance Corporal · March 2, 1968
- ROBERT MELVIN LOUGH JRStaff Sergeant · February 23, 1969
- WILLIAM CARL WHITLATCH JRSergeant · December 12, 1969
- GLEN LEE FULLERTONTechnical Sergeant · July 2, 1971
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.