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TERRY JAMES WHITTAKER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 17, 1947 – April 9, 1967
Service recordTerry James Whittaker, of Newport, New Hampshire, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 9, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 8
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle Crewman (1833)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 3 AMTRAC BN 1 MARDIV
- Born
- March 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Newport, New Hampshire (Sullivan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 8
- HAROLD DENNIS VANBUSKIRKPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
- HOWARD EUGENE BEAGLESergeant · April 10, 1967
- LEONARD ALEXANDER CARTERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
From Newport
- JOHN F LEEFirst Lieutenant · July 6, 1966
- MICHAEL ERVAN BRADYSpecialist Four · January 28, 1967
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.