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RONALD GENE WHITE SR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 5, 1945 – July 2, 1968
Service recordRonald Gene White SR, of Marshfield, Missouri, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 39
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 5, 1945
- Home of record
- Marshfield, Missouri (Webster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 39
- CLARENCE CECIL RATLIFFMajor · July 2, 1968
- HENRY ALBERT TIPPINGColonel · July 2, 1968
- JAMES JOSEPH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · July 2, 1968
- ARNOLD ALVIN ADESLance Corporal · July 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE JOHN ANDERSONSergeant · Panel 54W, Line 34
From Marshfield
- WILLIAM RAY GOWERCaptain · July 29, 1966
- REX WHEELER HIGHFILLSpecialist Four · February 12, 1967
- ALAN JAMES RUDDELLSpecialist Four · May 26, 1967
- JERRY LEON PETTYSergeant · May 18, 1968
- JOHN MARK HANSENSergeant · October 13, 1968
- JACK LAWRENCE BAGLEYFirst Lieutenant · October 27, 1970
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.