Whitaker, James E.

James E. Whitaker, age 20, from New Paltz, New York, Ulster county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Saturday, July 8, 1961
Death details: Among four Army recruits killed at Fort Benning, Georgia when a bolt of lightning struck a tree and ricochet into the group at a remote rifle range.

Source: UPI (1970), Kingston Daily Record (1961)