Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: M Company, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 18-Jul-1945
Hometown: Columbus, Georgia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 1-Jul-1966
Start of tour: 30-Oct-1967
Incident date: 12-Jan-1968
Date of casualty: 12-Jan-1968
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Dewitt Joseph Wolf died as the result of fragment wounds received while passenger in tank which was hit by hostile anti-tank round during combat operation.
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Hillcrest Abbey East Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, USA
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