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PAUL LEROY WOODARD
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
July 8, 1935 – March 15, 1968
Service recordPaul Leroy Woodard, of Camden, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 63
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- July 8, 1935
- Home of record
- Camden, New Jersey (Camden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 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 44E, Line 63
- CLARENCE HENRY LEWISCorporal · March 15, 1968
- WILLIAM SMYLY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · March 15, 1968
- EARNEST WILSONSergeant · March 15, 1968
- GERALD JAMES WINCHCaptain · March 15, 1968
From Camden
- SIDNEY COHENStaff Sergeant · November 15, 1965
- GEORGE JOSEPH STEPHENSPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- RONALD WILLIAM NICKERSONSpecialist Four · December 21, 1965
- WARREN WALTER PFEFFERLEPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- EDWARD STEVEN DANIELSPrivate First Class · June 16, 1966
- JOSEPH EVERETT PACKER JRAirman Second Class · June 16, 1966
- LUIS SANTIAGO SANTIAGOPrivate First Class · June 24, 1966
- JAMES XAVIER GILCHPrivate First Class · July 21, 1966
- JOHN DAVID SMITHSergeant · August 11, 1966
- GEORGE WILLIAM MILLERPrivate First Class · September 19, 1966
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.