United States Navy Lieutenant MacLaughlin died in an aircrash in the Vietnam War. Donald was stationed on the USS Enterprise and was a 1963 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Donald is honored on the Vietnam Memorial Wall 04E051.
On 02 Jan 1966 USS ENTERPRISE launched a number of combat missions in support of Allied forces. One two-plane mission, with LTJG MacLaughlin flying wing, was directed against a storage site near Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province. The weather was poor with low cloud and fog, the plane was able to make a low pass over the target, but radio contact with MacLaughlin was lost shortly thereafter. The wreckage of MacLaughlin's plane was later found on a nearby mountainside, but efforts to recover MacLaughlin's body (which was sighted from a helicopter) were unsuccessful due to enemy presence. Donald is listed as Died While Missing.
The Lt. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award — also known as the "Don MacLaughlin Award" — has been given annually since 1973 by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) to the nation's most outstanding college lacrosse midfielder in NCAA Division I and Division II. The award is named after Lieutenant MacLaughlin, an All-American midfielder for the U.S. Naval Academy men's lacrosse team.
On 02 Jan 1966 USS ENTERPRISE launched a number of combat missions in support of Allied forces. One two-plane mission, with LTJG MacLaughlin flying wing, was directed against a storage site near Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province. The weather was poor with low cloud and fog, the plane was able to make a low pass over the target, but radio contact with MacLaughlin was lost shortly thereafter. The wreckage of MacLaughlin's plane was later found on a nearby mountainside, but efforts to recover MacLaughlin's body (which was sighted from a helicopter) were unsuccessful due to enemy presence. Donald is listed as Died While Missing.
The Lt. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award — also known as the "Don MacLaughlin Award" — has been given annually since 1973 by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) to the nation's most outstanding college lacrosse midfielder in NCAA Division I and Division II. The award is named after Lieutenant MacLaughlin, an All-American midfielder for the U.S. Naval Academy men's lacrosse team.
United States Navy Lieutenant MacLaughlin died in an aircrash in the Vietnam War. Donald was stationed on the USS Enterprise and was a 1963 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Donald is honored on the Vietnam Memorial Wall 04E051.
On 02 Jan 1966 USS ENTERPRISE launched a number of combat missions in support of Allied forces. One two-plane mission, with LTJG MacLaughlin flying wing, was directed against a storage site near Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province. The weather was poor with low cloud and fog, the plane was able to make a low pass over the target, but radio contact with MacLaughlin was lost shortly thereafter. The wreckage of MacLaughlin's plane was later found on a nearby mountainside, but efforts to recover MacLaughlin's body (which was sighted from a helicopter) were unsuccessful due to enemy presence. Donald is listed as Died While Missing.
The Lt. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award — also known as the "Don MacLaughlin Award" — has been given annually since 1973 by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) to the nation's most outstanding college lacrosse midfielder in NCAA Division I and Division II. The award is named after Lieutenant MacLaughlin, an All-American midfielder for the U.S. Naval Academy men's lacrosse team.
On 02 Jan 1966 USS ENTERPRISE launched a number of combat missions in support of Allied forces. One two-plane mission, with LTJG MacLaughlin flying wing, was directed against a storage site near Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province. The weather was poor with low cloud and fog, the plane was able to make a low pass over the target, but radio contact with MacLaughlin was lost shortly thereafter. The wreckage of MacLaughlin's plane was later found on a nearby mountainside, but efforts to recover MacLaughlin's body (which was sighted from a helicopter) were unsuccessful due to enemy presence. Donald is listed as Died While Missing.
The Lt. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award — also known as the "Don MacLaughlin Award" — has been given annually since 1973 by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) to the nation's most outstanding college lacrosse midfielder in NCAA Division I and Division II. The award is named after Lieutenant MacLaughlin, an All-American midfielder for the U.S. Naval Academy men's lacrosse team.
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U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
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1950 United States Federal Census
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U.S., Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-2020
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U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985
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Maryland, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current
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