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THORNTON LEWIS WOOLRIDGE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 17, 1949 – March 19, 1971
Service recordThornton Lewis Woolridge, of Skygusty, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 59
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 17, 1949
- Home of record
- Skygusty, West Virginia (Mcdowell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 59
- GENE RANDOLF KENNEDYSpecialist Four · March 19, 1971
- THOMAS MARTIN KENNEDYSergeant First Class · March 19, 1971
- CAESAR MURRAYAirman First Class · March 19, 1971
- JACK LAMAR BARKERMajor · March 20, 1971
From Skygusty
- DOUGLAS EDWARD HOBACKCorporal · February 2, 1968
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.