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ALVY EUGENE WOOD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 26, 1947 – May 12, 1968
Service recordAlvy Eugene Wood, of Livingston, Montana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 15
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Livingston, Montana (Park County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 15
- GRIFFIN ELI SCARBOROUGHCaptain · May 12, 1968
- IMLAY SCOTT WIDDISONCorporal · May 12, 1968
- BRUCE JEFFREY WILDERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- ROY CHARLES WILLIAMSSergeant First Class · May 12, 1968
From Livingston
- JACK HERBERT ANDERSONSecond Lieutenant · April 12, 1967
- ARTHUR LEE STOCKBURGERCaptain · August 27, 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.