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)
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)
Billy G. Casebolt, age 17, from Ford’s Branch, Kentucky, Pike 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)
Donald Dinardo, age 18, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny 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)