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ELK CARLOS NICHOLAS YELLOW
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 19, 1950 – August 29, 1968
Service recordElk Carlos Nicholas Yellow, of Milesville, South Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 2
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Duty Soldier (57A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 19, 1950
- Home of record
- Milesville, South Dakota (Haakon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 2
- THOMAS RANDAL SCALISEPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- DONALD WAYNE SIMONSONPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- CLAIBORNE JOHN SKINNERLance Corporal · August 29, 1968
- JOHN BYRON SMITHHospitalman · August 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY EDWARD FRANTZPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 59
- ERNESTO R GALLARDOSpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 59
- MICHAEL LEO NATHEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 46W, Line 61
- JEFFREY SANDERS TIGNERPrivate First Class · Panel 45W, Line 3
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.