Name: Lawrence Woods
Rank/Branch: E6/US Army
Unit: 5th Special Forces
Date of Birth: 18 March 1925
Home City of Record: Clarksville TN
Date of Loss: 24 October 1964
Country of Loss: Cambodia
Loss Coordinates: 121914N 1071952E (YU535630)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C123B
Refno: 0042
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)

SYNOPSIS: On October 24, 1964, Special Forces SSgt. Lawrence Woods was a passenger on a Fairchild C123 "Provider" which departed Na Trang on an aerial resupply mission near the border of South Vietnam and Cambodia.
The aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. The aircraft itself was completely destroyed by fire except for the tail section. No parachutes were seen to leave the aircraft as it crashed. Subsequent searches of the crash site resulted in the recovery or accounting of seven individuals onboard the aircraft, but Woods was not found.
Lawrence Woods is listed among the missing because his remains were never found. Others who are missing do not have such clear-cut cases. Some were known captives; some were photographed as they were led by their guards. Some were in radio contact with search teams, while others simply disappeared.
Since the war ended, over 250,000 interviews have been conducted with those who claim to know about Americans still alive in Southeast Asia, and several million documents have been studied. U.S. Government experts cannot seem to agree whether Americans are there alive or not. Detractors say it would be far too politically difficult to bring the men they believe to be alive home, and the U.S. is content to negotiate for remains.
Well over 1000 first-hand, eye-witness reports of American prisoners still alive in Southeast Asia have been received by 1990. Most of them are still classified. If, as the U.S. seems to believe, the men are all dead, why the secrecy after so many years? If the men are alive, why are they not home?