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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 Isaiah White.

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ISAIAH WHITE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 24, 1947 – January 27, 1968

Service record

Isaiah White, of Lane, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 27, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 35E · Line 52

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Railway Section Foreman (57B)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 71 EVAC HOSP 43 MED GRP 44 MED BDE
Born
May 24, 1947
Home of record
Lane, South Carolina (Williamsburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 27, 1968
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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49 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 35E, Line 52

From Lane

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.