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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mark Alan Whitt.

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MARK ALAN WHITT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 29, 1947 – July 2, 1967

Service record

Mark Alan Whitt, of Hollywood, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 118

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
515 TRANS CO 1 LOG CMD
Born
December 29, 1947
Home of record
Hollywood, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 2, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 118

From Hollywood

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.