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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jack Lee Woolsey.

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JACK LEE WOOLSEY

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

April 18, 1948 – June 9, 1968

Service record

Jack Lee Woolsey, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 58W · Line 16

Position of Panel 58W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
April 18, 1948
Home of record
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 9, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Other Weapons

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 58W, Line 16

From Oklahoma City

All 159 names from Oklahoma City →

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.