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Doyle, Michael William (Paw), CDR.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Philadelphia, PA
Last Address Philadelphia, PA
Casualty Date Aug 25, 1972
Cause MIA-Died in Captivity
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Vietnam, North (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Post 731 Salutes Our Missing In Action: "Lt. Commander Michael W. Doyle Day"
In 1974, the Post joined with the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia and others in an attempt to get prisoners released and those missing in action accounted for in accordance with the Peace Agreement signed in Paris on June 27, 1973. Post and Auxiliary members wore bracelets with the name of an MIA inscribed and prayed for their safe return Letters were sent to President Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger and our congressional representatives urging them to pushed for the accounting of these prisoners and MIA's.
The Post adopted Lt. Commander Paul L. Worrell as our special MIA. On December 2, 1964, while on a mission from the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was shot down and had been missing since. A special Mass was said at Sacred Heart Church for Lt. Commander Worrell and the other MIA's. The celebrant was Post 731's Chaplain, Monsignor Thomas B. Falls who gave a warm and personalized homily. Mr. and Mrs. Worrell were present along with a large delegation of friends and relatives of other MIA's.
June 15, 1975 was proclaimed "Lt. Commander Michael W. Doyle Day" by the Haverford Township Commissioners. On that day, the Post planted a "Freedom Tree" and dedicated it to Commander Doyle, an unreturned prisoner of war. Years later, Commander Doyle's body was returned and a large delegation from the Post went to his Mass of Resurrection in the Chapel at Ft. Myers and to his burial in Arlington Cemetery.
