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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 Theodore Wood Webb.

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THEODORE WOOD WEBB

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

December 12, 1945 – September 16, 1969

Service record

Theodore Wood Webb, of Swoope, Virginia, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 16, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 99

Position of Panel 18W 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Defense Missile Unit Commander (1180)
Unit (as recorded)
5 INF DIV MECH
Born
December 12, 1945
Home of record
Swoope, Virginia (Augusta County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 16, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1969, 664 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 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 99

Same unit, same day

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.