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JOHN CULLIN WHITE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 5, 1947 – January 16, 1968
Service recordJohn Cullin White, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 16, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Winthrop, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phong Dinh Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 61
- JOHN HOLGER WRISBERG IIISpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- JOHN F YOUNGCaptain · January 16, 1968
- HERLEY AYER JRSergeant First Class · January 17, 1968
- SAM FESTIS BEACH JRCaptain · January 17, 1968
From Winthrop
- PAUL FRANK BRUGMANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1967
- EDWARD RICHARD CORDEAUSergeant · March 7, 1968
- ROBERT WINSLOW BELCHERCorporal · April 11, 1968
- JOHN ALDEN COUNTAWAY JRLance Corporal · May 8, 1968
- JOSEPH PATRICK LOGAN JRFirst Lieutenant · May 29, 1968
- JOSEPH MICHAEL PIGNATOLance Corporal · November 6, 1968
- EDMUND LAMBERT MACNEIL IIIStaff Sergeant · May 2, 1971
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.