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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Henry Eugene Wooley.

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HENRY EUGENE WOOLEY

Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 24, 1946 – June 13, 1968

Service record

Henry Eugene Wooley, of Banks, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 57W · Line 15

Position of Panel 57W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
November 24, 1946
Home of record
Banks, Arkansas (Bradley County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 13, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 57W, Line 15

Same unit, same day

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.