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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Arthur Whitney.

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WILLIAM ARTHUR WHITNEY

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 28, 1947 – November 8, 1967

Service record

William Arthur Whitney, of Centerville, Utah, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 29E · Line 55

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
190 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
Born
August 28, 1947
Home of record
Centerville, Utah (Davis County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 8, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

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What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “190 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 29E, Line 55

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.