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DON JUNIOR YELVERTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 7, 1950 – March 31, 1968
Service recordDon Junior Yelverton, of Houma, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Houma, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 25
- ERASMO PALOSLance Corporal · March 31, 1968
- JERRY LEE PATRICKSpecialist Five · March 31, 1968
- DANIEL PESIMERSergeant · March 31, 1968
- THOMAS PIERRE PRUIETT JRPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LESLIE ARNOLD BALLSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 19
- PATRICK MARTIN DERIGCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 20
- JERRY LEE PATRICKSpecialist Five · Panel 47E, Line 25
- EZEKIEL PAIGESergeant · Panel 47E, Line 26
- DANNY LYNN STEPHENSPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 27
- JAMES OSCAR WESTPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 28
From Houma
- RAYMOND PATRICK FLYNNPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- ROY ANTHONY DUTHUPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- CALVIN RAYMOND HEBERT JRCorporal · February 22, 1966
- MILLER JOHN BOURGLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES BOUDREAUXPrivate First Class · July 7, 1966
- WILTON PAUL LEBOUEFSpecialist Four · August 21, 1966
- SAMUEL ENNIS MURPHPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- ELDRIDGE MICHAEL BRUNETSpecialist Four · September 27, 1967
- RUDOLPH JOHN BILLIOTPrivate First Class · December 21, 1967
- ROBERT LEE SCOTTPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
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.