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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 Lynn Cecil Whitford.

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LYNN CECIL WHITFORD

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 29, 1947 – March 22, 1969

Service record

Lynn Cecil Whitford, of Crown Point, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 28W · Line 16

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Grader Operator (62K)
Unit (as recorded)
14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
December 29, 1947
Home of record
Crown Point, New York (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 22, 1969
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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46 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.