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JOHN WILLIE WHITE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 10, 1946 – June 9, 1965
Service recordJohn Willie White, of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Aliquippa, Pennsylvania (Beaver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1965. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 3
- NELSON EARL VANGUNDYCorporal · June 9, 1965
- RONALD EARL BLAKESpecialist Four · June 10, 1965
- WALTER RAY GRAYPrivate First Class · June 10, 1965
- FRED MONROE OWENSSergeant First Class · June 10, 1965
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES DANIEL PIZZIPrivate First Class · Panel 2E, Line 2
From Aliquippa
- DOYLE WILMER LYNNCommander · May 27, 1965
- RAYMOND SANTILLISpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- RONALD EDWARD MCCLELLANDSergeant · October 28, 1966
- JULIUS EDGAR JENKINSSpecialist Four · May 22, 1967
- JOSEPH ANDREW TOMKOCaptain · June 1, 1967
- NICK PANELLA JRPrivate First Class · July 3, 1967
- DAVID LAWRENCE COWARTLance Corporal · September 25, 1967
- ADOLPHUS ELLISPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- LAWRENCE RYLAND KOMANSecond Lieutenant · March 30, 1968
- ALFRED BENNETT CAFRELLISpecialist Four · April 21, 1968
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.