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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Keith Woodcock.

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MICHAEL KEITH WOODCOCK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 29, 1945 – December 12, 1970

Service record

Michael Keith Woodcock, of Galveston, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 118

Position of Panel 6W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
5 INF DIV MECH
Born
September 29, 1945
Home of record
Galveston, Texas (Galveston County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 12, 1970
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1970; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 118

Same unit, same day

From Galveston

All 32 names from Galveston →

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.