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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dan Burgess Yarbrough.

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DAN BURGESS YARBROUGH

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

April 20, 1949 – July 11, 1969

Service record

Dan Burgess Yarbrough, of Tooele, Utah, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 104

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 20, 1949
Home of record
Tooele, Utah (Tooele County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1969
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1969; 22 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 104

Same unit, same day

From Tooele

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.