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DONALD FRANK WOOD
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
March 1, 1943 – April 1, 1968
Service recordDonald Frank Wood, of Coloma, Michigan, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 1, 1968, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 38
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
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Electrician's Mate (AE)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- March 1, 1943
- Home of record
- Coloma, Michigan (Berrien County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 1, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1968. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 38
- ROBERT CECIL STRICKLANDPrivate First Class · April 1, 1968
- ALVIN GEORGE YOXSIMERPetty Officer First Class · April 1, 1968
- HERBERT HUGO CATO IIIPrivate First Class · April 2, 1968
- GEORGE JOHN KOHLMEIR IIIPrivate First Class · April 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD WAYNE BURNSIDEPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 47E, Line 30
- KENNETH LEE CRISTPetty Officer First Class · Panel 47E, Line 31
- FRANK EDWARD HAND IIILieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 47E, Line 32
- DELMAR LEON LAWRENCEPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 47E, Line 33
- STUART MURRAY MCLELLANLieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 47E, Line 35
From Coloma
- DOYLE LEE HARRISCorporal · June 7, 1967
- THOMAS PIERRE PRUIETT JRPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- PHILIP ALLEN JOHNSONCorporal · February 21, 1969
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.