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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 Woodrow Wilson.

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WOODROW WILSON

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

December 7, 1934 – March 19, 1968

Service record

Woodrow Wilson, of Havelock, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45E · Line 35

Position of Panel 45E 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
December 7, 1934
Home of record
Havelock, North Carolina (Craven County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 19, 1968
Age
33
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 68 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45E, Line 35

From Havelock

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.