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EUGENE MERRILL WOODSON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 12, 1945 – August 8, 1968
Service recordEugene Merrill Woodson, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 8, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 32
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Quartermaster Heavy Equipment Repairman (63K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- September 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Rutherford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 8, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Long An Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 32
- DWIGHT EDGAR MOONEYSergeant · August 8, 1968
- LEONARD LEE MOORESergeant First Class · August 8, 1968
- ZACHARY PHILLIP NEWPrivate First Class · August 8, 1968
- RONALD LEE NOLDNERCorporal · August 8, 1968
From Murfreesboro
- GEORGE WILLIAM BURKHEARTFirst Lieutenant · September 3, 1965
- ROBERT OLIVER GARANTCorporal · July 29, 1966
- LARRY DON EARLSFirst Lieutenant · January 2, 1967
- JOE RAYMOND FULGHUM JRCaptain · February 2, 1967
- ROBERT RAY BOYDCaptain · May 17, 1967
- RONALD JOHN ENSLEY JRPrivate First Class · November 3, 1967
- RICHARD EDWARD WADEStaff Sergeant · November 4, 1967
- GEORGE D OSBORNESergeant · October 4, 1968
- JAMES TIMOTHY LUSCINSKICaptain · October 8, 1969
- MARK ALBERT BABSON JRCaptain · October 14, 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.