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WILLIAM GEORGE WHITE
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
June 16, 1943 – June 16, 1969
Service recordWilliam George White, of Union City, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 16, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 61
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Electrician (CE)
- Born
- June 16, 1943
- Home of record
- Union City, New Jersey (Hudson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 61
- SASA ULIPrivate First Class · June 16, 1969
- DAVID EARL WEISSSpecialist Four · June 16, 1969
- MARVIN CHARLES WHITECorporal · June 16, 1969
- SAMMY HOWARD WHITWORTHCorporal · June 16, 1969
From Union City
- GEORGE KEVIN BEERESSpecialist Four · February 11, 1966
- MARCHELLA RAYMOND LANZONEMaster Sergeant · November 26, 1966
- ANTHONY CHRISTOPHER SCIVOLINOSpecialist Four · December 12, 1966
- JOHN RECKPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- RAYMOND FREDERICK BARDETPrivate First Class · May 28, 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.