Whitman, James K.
Navy Communications technician

James K. Whitman, age 18, from Seneca County Tiffin, Ohio .

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, September 24, 1965
Death details: Killed in Japan in a dawn fire that destroyed a two-story communication building that was engaged in classified work relaying messages between ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in water off Vietnam and land installations.

Source: Associated Press (1965)