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WILLIAM C WHITEHEAD JR
Major · U.S. Army
September 17, 1940 – June 30, 1968
Service recordWilliam C Whitehead JR, of Lansford, Pennsylvania, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 22
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
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- September 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Lansford, Pennsylvania (Carbon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 30, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 22
- LARRY D AUSTINPrivate First Class · June 30, 1968
- ARTHUR CLAY BALLEWPrivate First Class · June 30, 1968
- GORDON FRANCIS BROWNEPrivate First Class · June 30, 1968
- RICHARD CURTIS BUSBY JRPrivate First Class · June 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK WARREN JONESWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 54W, Line 24
From Lansford
- ANTHONY ROBERT GIANNANGELIColonel · April 2, 1972
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.