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GARY SIDNEY WHITE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 4, 1950 – March 22, 1971
Service recordGary Sidney White, of Perry, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1971, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 69
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 4, 1950
- Home of record
- Perry, Oklahoma (Noble County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1971; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 69
- CLARENCE MYRON SUCHONCorporal · March 22, 1971
- JOHN GROVE TRAVER IIIWarrant Officer 1 · March 22, 1971
- THOMAS LEE ZEIGLERSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
- SHERMAN AVANTSergeant · March 23, 1971
Same unit, same day
- BENJAMIN WAYNE DUNCANPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 66
From Perry
- KENNETH TRUMAN RUSSELLCorporal · February 16, 1967
- JACK LEE SNODGRASSStaff Sergeant · May 2, 1968
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.