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JOHN STEVEN WOOLHEATER
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
September 29, 1944 – January 27, 1967
Service recordJohn Steven Woolheater, of Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 27, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 89
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
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- September 29, 1944
- Home of record
- Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 27, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 89
- STEVE ALBERT SRSENPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- ROBERT VIRGIL THOMASPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- LAWRENCE SMITH VOGELPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- RICHARD VICKERS THOMPSONFirst Lieutenant · January 27, 1969
From Mckees Rocks
- ROBERT JOHN KOTIKLance Corporal · April 30, 1967
- KENNETH JAMES PATTONStaff Sergeant · February 2, 1968
- JOHN PASS IIISpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN ROSENWALDPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GAULTSpecialist Four · April 10, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD METZLERPrivate First Class · October 12, 1968
- GEORGE WILLIAM GREGAWarrant Officer 1 · November 2, 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.