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JOHN DOUGLAS WOODARD
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
January 31, 1947 – April 4, 1968
Service recordJohn Douglas Woodard, of Clyde, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 4, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 13
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 9 ASLT DIV 92
- Born
- January 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Clyde, North Carolina (Haywood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 9 ASLT DIV 92”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 48E, Line 13
- ROBERT L TAYLORSergeant First Class · April 4, 1968
- WILLIAM CHARLES VANCELance Corporal · April 4, 1968
- LUTHER TOMMY WILDERSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- DAVID LEIGH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SAMUEL CALHOUN CHAVOUS JRChief Petty Officer · Panel 48E, Line 1
From Clyde
- DAVID MICHAEL MCPHERSONSpecialist Five · January 14, 1967
- ROBERT CARROLL HAWKINSPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- CHARLES CROCKETT MATTHEWSSergeant · August 13, 1969
- BENNY DOYCE GREENEStaff Sergeant · April 13, 1970
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.