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WOODROW N TRISSELL JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 30, 1948 – June 24, 1969
Service recordWoodrow N Trissell JR, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 10
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1969; six of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 10
- ALAN EARL SANDERSSergeant · June 24, 1969
- RONALD SCOTTSpecialist Five · June 24, 1969
- JAMES ALLEN SLATERSpecialist Four · June 24, 1969
- MICHAEL JEFFERY WATERLOOPrivate First Class · June 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GARY LEE CLARKSpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 6
- LAVON NEIL PRATHERSpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 9
- RICHARD DANIEL ROBERTSPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 9
- DEAN CHARLES WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 11
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
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.