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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Frederick White.

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ROBERT FREDERICK WHITE

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 9, 1939 – August 17, 1967

Service record

Robert Frederick White, of Newmarket, New Hampshire, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 17, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 25E · Line 9

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
December 9, 1939
Home of record
Newmarket, New Hampshire (Rockingham County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 17, 1967
Age
27
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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28 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 25E, Line 9

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.