Woodrow Williams

Date of Birth: 12/10/1946
Neighborhood: Nicetown
High School:
Street: N. 19th Street
Branch of Service: Marine Corps
Rank: LCPL
Date of Casualty: 05/03/1967
Province of Casualty: Quang Tri
Philadelphia Memorial Panel: Panel 33
Panel Row: 13

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Williams worked as a department store stock boy for a year before joining the Marines in January 1966. The 20-year-old lance corporal was sent to Vietnam, where he was a messenger in Company E of the Second Batallion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine division. Williams died of shrapnel wounds on May 3, 1967.

Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial