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TIMOTHY LEE WHITE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 31, 1949 – February 2, 1968
Service recordTimothy Lee White, of Bloomington, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 2
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 31, 1949
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Illinois (Mclean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 2
- KENNETH JERRY WILLIAMSSergeant · February 2, 1968
- BILLY WAYNE WILSONLance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- JACK PYEATT WILSON JRSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- EMMETT LEE YORK JRStaff Sergeant · February 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HOLLIS RAY HALEStaff Sergeant · Panel 36E, Line 67
- PHILLIP O GUILLENSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 73
- DENNIS J MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 79
- JOHNNIE N SHEARES JRSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 87
From Bloomington
- GEORGE ELMER BURCHETTStaff Sergeant · September 18, 1965
- WILLIAM REINHART BUFFCorporal · August 30, 1966
- THOMAS LEO HOENIGESSergeant · June 8, 1967
- WILLIAM WALTER LITTLE IIICorporal · November 7, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE MONKMANPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- ROBERT GENE PINKSTONStaff Sergeant · March 14, 1968
- OMAR DAVID JONESFirst Lieutenant · May 12, 1968
- GARY CECIL BAIZEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- THOMAS CARLYLE JACOBSWarrant Officer 1 · September 13, 1968
- BERNARD JAMES COOKSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
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.