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WOODROW MAKIN JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 7, 1948 – May 28, 1968
Service recordWoodrow Makin JR, of Donalds, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 64W · Line 12
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Donalds, South Carolina (Abbeville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 64W, Line 12
- JOHN EDWARD HAZELWOODCorporal · May 28, 1968
- DENNIS RAE MASONSpecialist Four · May 28, 1968
- CARROLL RODNEY MEIERCorporal · May 28, 1968
- WALTER MERRILL POWELLCorporal · May 28, 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.