Joe Alan Whitby
Sergeant
H&S CO, 1ST BN, 9TH MARINES, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Pasco, Washington
April 02, 1944 to March 05, 1967
JOE A WHITBY is on the Wall at Panel 16E, Line 25

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08 Jun 2001

REMEMBERED ACROSS THE YEARS

by his niece,
Jennie Gunter
jennie_gunter@hotmail.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 05 March 1967 Charlie and Delta Companies, 1/9 Marines, assaulted NVA forces emplaced around Phu An. The NVA were defeated at the cost of at least eleven Marines killed in action:
  • Charlie 1/9:
    • SGT Refugio J. Cantu, San Antonio, TX
    • SGT Pedro Leon, Kansas City, MO
    • LCPL Anthony M. Orlando, Selden, NY
    • PFC Dewey H. Brown, Houston, TX
    • PFC Roy A. Schaefer, Fond Du Lac, WI

  • Delta 1/9:
    • LCPL Magdaleno Tarango, Lordsburg, NM
    • PFC Carl F. Mowery, Springfield, OH
    • PFC Edward G. Ray, Detroit, MI
    • PFC David A. Taylor, Thomaston, GA

  • Mortars, H&S 1/9:
    • SGT Joe A. Whitby, Pasco, WA
    • CPL Ronald A. Williams, Philadelphia, PA

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