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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Lee Woods.

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ARTHUR LEE WOODS

Private · U.S. Marine Corps

November 3, 1949 – May 4, 1969

Service record

Arthur Lee Woods, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 4, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 3

Position of Panel 25W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
November 3, 1949
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 3

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.