Gerald Ernest Woods

Vietnam War
Unit101st Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division
RankWarrant Officer First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service FromSamem Oregon
Date of DeathFebruary 18 1971
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Warrant Officer, First Class Woods was a member of Company A, 101st Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. On February 18, 1971, he was the pilot of a Bell Iroquois Utility Helicopter (UH-1H) on an emergency patrol extraction from the west side of A Shau Valley in Thua Tin Province, South Vietnam when his aircraft was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire, crashed and burned and was killed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.