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CHARLES RUSSELL YATES
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 25, 1949 – January 23, 1969
Service recordCharles Russell Yates, of Turbeville, South Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 25, 1949
- Home of record
- Turbeville, South Carolina (Clarendon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1969; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 69
- ANTHONY JOSEPH WIECKOWICZSpecialist Four · January 23, 1969
- JAMES ARTHUR BURTONCorporal · January 24, 1969
- DOUGLAS MICHAEL CADYSpecialist Four · January 24, 1969
- DONALD RICHARD CARLYLEPrivate First Class · January 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PETER LEONARD ALAGNAPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 63
- KEITH NOLAND CANTRELLPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 64
- DENNIS HAROLD GUTHRIESergeant · Panel 34W, Line 65
- ARNOLD GLEN OAKESPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 66
- EDWARD PAUL OGDENSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 66
- JERRY ALLEN PALMERPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 67
- BENEDICT JOHN TRIPODOCorporal · Panel 34W, Line 68
From Turbeville
- LARRY JAMES PORTERSpecialist Four · October 21, 1971
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.