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WILLIAM MILTON WOOD JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
February 9, 1940 – February 14, 1966
Service recordWilliam Milton Wood JR, of Happy Camp, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 36
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 9, 1940
- Home of record
- Happy Camp, California (Siskiyou County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 14, 1966
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date February 14, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 5E, Line 36
- JACK CHARLES RODRIGUEZPetty Officer Second Class · February 14, 1966
- DAYTON LUTHER RUDISILLPetty Officer Second Class · February 14, 1966
- HENRY MORGAN STARKEYPrivate First Class · February 14, 1966
- ERNEST GALE TOMPKINSSpecialist Four · February 14, 1966
From Happy Camp
- WILLIAM CHARLES LAWSONSpecialist Four · August 25, 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.