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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carroll Wayne White.

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CARROLL WAYNE WHITE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 17, 1948 – September 29, 1968

Service record

Carroll Wayne White, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 42W · Line 44

Position of Panel 42W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
July 17, 1948
Home of record
Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 29, 1968
Age
20
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 42W, Line 44

From Memphis

All 227 names from Memphis →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.