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THOMAS ALVIN WHITBY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 13, 1947 – May 12, 1969
Service recordThomas Alvin Whitby, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 91
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 31 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- May 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Kalamazoo, Michigan (Kalamazoo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 31 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 91
- WAYNE DOUGLAS STIGENPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- WENDELL ALLEN WESTONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- CHARLES E WILSON JRSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- JOSEPH WILBERT WOODARD JRPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES WILSON HARTERSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 70
From Kalamazoo
- KONSTANTINS ADOLFS LUBAVSCaptain · February 7, 1966
- RONALD WAYNE HOBBSSpecialist Four · February 12, 1966
- STANLEY CLAUS CAMPBELLPetty Officer Third Class · August 25, 1966
- JAMES EDWARDS GARDNERFirst Lieutenant · October 13, 1966
- WOODROW JOHN MUELLERSpecialist Four · March 9, 1967
- WILLIAM HARRY CROSSMANPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENS JRPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- GERRIT JOHN SCHOUWBURGSpecialist Five · June 24, 1967
- MICHAEL PATRICK CASSIDYSpecialist Four · July 13, 1967
- DAVID HARM ESMANSpecialist Four · August 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.