Mark Wolfe (1945-2 January 1968) was a US Army lieutenant during the Vietnam War.
Biography[]
Mark Wolfe was born in Ohio in 1945, and he enlisted in the US Army during the Vietnam War. Despite his youth and inexperience, he rose to be Lieutenant of Bravo Company, US 25th Infantry Division by September 1967, leading it in patrols along the Cambodian border. Most of his men instead deferred to Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes or Sergeant Elias Gordon, each of whom had a faction of supporters within the platoon. On 2 January 1968, during the New Year's Day Battle of 1968, Wolfe was killed while fighting back a major NVA assault.