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CICERO WHITFIELD JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 24, 1948 – August 22, 1967
Service recordCicero Whitfield JR, of Tarboro, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Track Vehicle Repairer (63H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Tarboro, North Carolina (Edgecombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 22, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 25E, Line 32
- ROCKE DARRELL RAMSEYLance Corporal · August 22, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD SCHLOTTMANSpecialist Four · August 22, 1967
- HENRY T ARAGONStaff Sergeant · August 23, 1967
- GERALD FORD CARROLLPrivate First Class · August 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ALLEN MESSERPrivate First Class · Panel 25E, Line 30
From Tarboro
- CARL LOUIS DOUGHTIELieutenant (junior grade) · June 10, 1965
- FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT THORPELance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- HOWARD ARNOLD SESSOMSStaff Sergeant · June 21, 1967
- HUGH ELROY BEST IIIFirst Lieutenant · January 29, 1969
- GEORGE ELMER CANNON SRStaff Sergeant · August 6, 1969
- BOBBY EUGENE JONESSpecialist Four · January 30, 1970
- WILLIAM I ALLSBROOK JRPrivate First Class · October 2, 1970
- THOMAS REUBEN BRADLEYSpecialist Four · November 21, 1970
- WILLIAM HASSELL THIGPENFirst Lieutenant · January 16, 1971
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.