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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 Theodore G White JR.

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THEODORE G WHITE JR

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 16, 1941 – August 11, 1966

Service record

Theodore G White JR, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 11, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 128

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Photographer (4631)
Born
September 16, 1941
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 11, 1966
Age
24
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date August 11, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 128

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.