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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clark Newell Woodworth JR.

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CLARK NEWELL WOODWORTH JR

Captain · U.S. Army

September 19, 1934 – February 28, 1966

Service record

Clark Newell Woodworth JR, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 92

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Ranger, Infantry Unit Commander (81542)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
September 19, 1934
Home of record
Ann Arbor, Michigan (Washtenaw County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 28, 1966
Age
31
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 92

Same unit, same day

From Ann Arbor

All 28 names from Ann Arbor →

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.