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JERRY OTIS WOODS
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 30, 1945 – March 9, 1968
Service recordJerry Otis Woods, of Huntsville, Alabama, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 9, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 3
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Motor Vehicle Operator (3531)
- Born
- May 30, 1945
- Home of record
- Huntsville, Alabama (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 3
- LAWRENCE WALKER SCANLANPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- EDWARD MARVIN STERNINSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- WILLIAM VAZQUEZSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- RICHARD ELSWORTH VINCENTSergeant · March 9, 1968
From Huntsville
- ANTHONY D SHEFFIELDSergeant · December 9, 1965
- WILLIAM ALFRED BASON IIPrivate First Class · February 4, 1966
- MARION FRANKLIN ACTONPrivate First Class · April 11, 1966
- JAMES ANTHONY KIGERLance Corporal · September 17, 1966
- LAVLE JIMMY HALLLance Corporal · January 27, 1967
- JAMES EARL PERRYPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- ROBERT L MATTHEWSSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- JAMES EDMOND HUFFSergeant · October 27, 1967
- ROBERT IVAN RICELance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- LARRY GENE CLARKLance Corporal · February 4, 1968
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.