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ROBERT WAYNE WOOD
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
August 11, 1946 – July 21, 1967
Service recordRobert Wayne Wood, of Smyrna, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 21, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 106
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)
- H CO 2 BN 3 MAR 9 MAB
- Born
- August 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Smyrna, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1967; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 106
- GENE ARCARO WHITELance Corporal · July 21, 1967
- JAMES LEMAR WHITFIELDPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- REGINALD EUGENE WILSONPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- PAULINO GUTIERREZ LOPEZPrivate First Class · July 22, 1967
From Smyrna
- TROY DAVID PAYNE JRCorporal · April 26, 1967
- PAUL EDWARD KELLY JRPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
- JAMES LARRY WESTSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- GARY WILLIAM PAINTERPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- TERRY LEE MULKEYPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- CHARLES DANIEL SMITHLance Corporal · June 15, 1968
- FRED BUFFINGTONLance Corporal · June 30, 1968
- WILBUR LAWRENCE MILAM IIIPrivate First Class · February 10, 1969
- RONALD HERBERT HOWARDPrivate First Class · March 16, 1969
- MICHAEL ROBERT GLENNSpecialist Four · February 11, 1970
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.