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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dwight D Woolf.

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DWIGHT D WOOLF

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

December 13, 1946 – August 4, 1967

Service record

Dwight D Woolf, of Oran, Missouri, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 4, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 24E · Line 77

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
498 MED CO USARV
Born
December 13, 1946
Home of record
Oran, Missouri (Scott County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 4, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

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What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date August 4, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “498 MED CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

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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.