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HAROLD CHARLES WHITTAKER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 19, 1937 – February 29, 1968
Service recordHarold Charles Whittaker, of Scituate, Massachusetts, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 29, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 12
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 19, 1937
- Home of record
- Scituate, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42E, Line 12
- WAYNE LEVOYER WARDCorporal · February 29, 1968
- WILLIAM ROY WATTFirst Lieutenant · February 29, 1968
- RICKY FAY ADAMSLance Corporal · March 1, 1968
- EARL IRVIN ALTHOUSEPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
From Scituate
- JOHN F LAZAROVICH JRLance Corporal · December 4, 1967
- JOSEPH THOMAS HUNTCorporal · January 27, 1968
- WAYNE PAUL NEWCOMBLance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- JAMES EDWIN DOLANSpecialist Four · May 25, 1970
- ROBERT DAVID RHODESCorporal · May 27, 1970
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.