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JAMES HARDY WHITE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 14, 1947 – September 12, 1968
Service recordJames Hardy White, of Jonesville, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 43
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Born
- April 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Jonesville, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 43
- JAMES ANDERSEN SMITHFirst Lieutenant · September 12, 1968
- KENNETH ALBERT WEDMANSpecialist Five · September 12, 1968
- ROBERT RALPH WEISSFirst Lieutenant · September 12, 1968
- J C WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · September 12, 1968
From Jonesville
- DAVE MAYES JRSpecialist Four · November 13, 1965
- HUBERT AARON ERWINPrivate First Class · December 27, 1966
- BUDROW BASS JRPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- HOWARD LEE EARLYSergeant First Class · February 19, 1969
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.