White Jr., Melvin C.

Melvin C. White Jr., age 18, from Macon, Georgia, Bibb 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 richocheted into the group at a remote rifle range.

Source: UPI (1970)