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HARRY DEWITT MCWHINNEY JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 17, 1950 – October 25, 1971
Service recordHarry Dewitt McWhinney JR, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1971, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 50
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist (55D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 17, 1950
- Home of record
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 25, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1971; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 50
- CLIFFORD ARTHUR HOSTENSergeant · October 24, 1971
- ELLIOT MATSUOH YOSHIDAPrivate · October 25, 1971
- BRUCE ALLYN ABDELLAHPrivate · October 26, 1971
- MICKEY EUGENE EVELANDSpecialist Four · October 26, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ELLIOT MATSUOH YOSHIDAPrivate · Panel 2W, Line 50
From Pittsburgh
- CLEVELAND WILLIAM GORDONMajor · January 7, 1964
- THEODORE ALAN WINOWITCHPrivate First Class · December 30, 1964
- CHARLES FREDRICK CLYDESDALELieutenant (junior grade) · March 15, 1965
- WILLIAM DONAVAN BENNINGStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1965
- FRANK HUFFORD BLANKSergeant · August 18, 1965
- JOHN L JEMISONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- FRANK JOSEPH NADANY JRSergeant First Class · October 31, 1965
- RUSSELL EARL HAMMONDSergeant First Class · November 5, 1965
- HARRY FRANCIS JEDRZEJEWSKIPlatoon Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RONALD JOSEPH LOERLEINSergeant · November 25, 1965
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.