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MICHAEL LAVERN WHITE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
August 20, 1948 – September 23, 1969
Service recordMichael Lavern White, of Lenexa, Kansas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 23, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 2
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- August 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Lenexa, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 23, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 2
- MARVIN GENE STEPHENSPrivate First Class · September 23, 1969
- SHELBY DEAN STOVERPrivate First Class · September 23, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD WRIGHTPrivate First Class · September 23, 1969
- SOLOMON HERBERT BRYANTSergeant First Class · September 24, 1969
From Lenexa
- KURT ELTON LAPLANTLance Corporal · June 6, 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.