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JAMES LEWIS WOOD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 2, 1947 – February 15, 1968
Service recordJames Lewis Wood, of Eldon, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 15, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- September 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Eldon, Missouri (Miller County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 56
- RALPH LEROY WILLIAMSFirst Lieutenant · February 15, 1968
- ROGER GLENN WILSONPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- ROBERT EMMET ALEXANDERSergeant · February 16, 1968
- CHARLES ALLEN ALVAREZWarrant Officer 1 · February 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH LIGE FULTONSpecialist Five · Panel 39E, Line 47
- JAMES MARSHALL HILLFirst Lieutenant · Panel 39E, Line 48
- BRUCE ANTHONY NELSONSpecialist Five · Panel 39E, Line 51
- REX FRANKLIN TUTORSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 55
From Eldon
- JIMMY DON LESTERSergeant · April 15, 1969
- RICHARD REX CLAXTONPrivate First Class · June 13, 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.