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LAWRENCE WOODS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 18, 1925 – October 24, 1964
Service recordLawrence Woods, of Clarksville, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1964, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Food Service Specialist (94F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 18, 1925
- Home of record
- Clarksville, Tennessee (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1964
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1964; he was the only one lost in Quang Duc Province that day. In October 1964, 29 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 1E, Line 68
- RALPH MITCHELLStaff Sergeant · October 23, 1964
- ERNEST JOSEPH HALVORSONStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1964
- THEODORE BERT PHILLIPSStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1964
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES PIERCE SPARKSPrivate First Class · Panel 1E, Line 69
From Clarksville
- WOODROW WILSON VADENMajor · December 10, 1964
- DONALD HOWARD MEEKSpecialist Five · September 16, 1965
- JAMES DAVID LONGStaff Sergeant · September 30, 1965
- HUGH CAMPBELL GALBRAITHChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 24, 1966
- FRANK LUTHER HUDDLESTONMaster Sergeant · May 17, 1966
- ROBERT DONALD JENKINSPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- HAROLD A BEAVERSON JRStaff Sergeant · May 31, 1967
- JOSEPH LYLE FARMERSergeant · December 31, 1967
- DONALD PETER GERVAISMaster Sergeant · May 1, 1968
- IRVIN EUGENE MARTINCorporal · January 24, 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.