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JOHN KEVIN WOODS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 13, 1944 – February 11, 1968
Service recordJohn Kevin Woods, of Western Springs, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 1
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
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Motor Transport Officer (I) (3502)
- Born
- March 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Western Springs, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 39E, Line 1
- FLOYD VOYLESPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- STANLEY EUGENE WATSONPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- MICHAEL MORRIS ALLEYSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- CHARLES EUGENE YOUNGBLOODSergeant · February 12, 1968
From Western Springs
- WAYNE EDWARD PEARSONMajor · February 22, 1969
- JAMES DERRILL STEVENSONFirst Lieutenant · October 25, 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.