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CARL JULIUS WOODS
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
June 8, 1933 – September 28, 1965
Service recordCarl Julius Woods, of Bottineau, North Dakota, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 28, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 97
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Born
- June 8, 1933
- Home of record
- Bottineau, North Dakota (Bottineau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 28, 1965
- Age
- 32
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1965. In September 1965, 150 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 97
- VIRGIL GALAN CRUZLance Corporal · September 28, 1965
- LAURENCE MICHAEL KINGCorporal · September 28, 1965
- THOMAS EDWARD MCMAHAN JRCaptain · September 28, 1965
- JOHNNIE LEE SLOANPrivate First Class · September 28, 1965
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.