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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Timothy Allen White.

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TIMOTHY ALLEN WHITE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 17, 1951 – July 28, 1970

Service record

Timothy Allen White, of Union Lake, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 28, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8W · Line 64

Position of Panel 8W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
October 17, 1951
Home of record
Union Lake, Michigan (Oakland County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 28, 1970
Age
18
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date July 28, 1970; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8W, Line 64

Same unit, same day

From Union Lake

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.