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Henry C. White was an aviator and senior petty officer in the United States Coast Guard.

On August 1, 1942, while patroling the Gulf of Mexico in a Grumman J4F, he spotted German U-boat U-166. The U-boat dived, but he sunk it with the single depth charge his plane carried.

White was subsequently commissioned, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross.