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RALEIGH LEE GODLEY
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
January 24, 1930 – May 22, 1966
Service recordRaleigh Lee Godley, of Lawson, Missouri, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 22, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 103
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
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- January 24, 1930
- Home of record
- Lawson, Missouri (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1966
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1966; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 103
- RICHARD FRANKLYN LEASESpecialist Four · May 22, 1966
- GERALD ERNEST METCALFPrivate First Class · May 22, 1966
- GARY ELDON PERKINSPrivate First Class · May 22, 1966
- ALLEN JEROME RITTERPrivate First Class · May 22, 1966
From Lawson
- HAROLD KENNETH SOUTHWICKCorporal · March 2, 1967
- DONALD C SMITHSergeant · April 16, 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.