
Herb Doby from Oregon City, Oregon, Clackamas county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, February 4, 1967
Death details: On November 7, 1977, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Colonel Herb Doby, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Colonel Doby joined the U.S. Air Force from New Mexico and was a member of the 41st Reconnaissance Squadron. On February 4, 1967, he was one of six aboard an EB-66C Destroyer that went down in Bac Can Province, Vietnam. Three of the Destroyer’s crew survived the crash, were taken as prisoner of war, and eventually returned to duty. Lt Col Doby, along with the remaining two crew members, were killed in the incident. In 1977, the Vietnamese government returned several sets of human remains to U.S. custody, and Lt Col Doby was identified among them.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency