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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Scott Woodroffe.

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TERRY SCOTT WOODROFFE

Corporal · U.S. Army

August 28, 1950 – June 6, 1970

Service record

Terry Scott Woodroffe, of Salem, Oregon, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9W · Line 22

Position of Panel 9W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Born
August 28, 1950
Home of record
Salem, Oregon (Marion County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 6, 1970
Age
19
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1970; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 9W, Line 22

From Salem

All 34 names from Salem →

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.