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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Patrick Lee Wood.

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PATRICK LEE WOOD

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

September 29, 1947 – January 11, 1967

Service record

Patrick Lee Wood, of Riverside, California, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 11, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 11

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Communications/Navigation Systems Technician-Trainee Ima (6411)
Born
September 29, 1947
Home of record
Riverside, California (Riverside County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 11, 1967
Age
19
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 11

From Riverside

All 48 names from Riverside →

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.