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GEORGE ALLEN YARBROUGH
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 30, 1948 – September 17, 1968
Service recordGeorge Allen Yarbrough, of Jackson, Tennessee, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 17, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 22
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- January 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Jackson, Tennessee (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 22
- GEORGE SANDOVALLance Corporal · September 17, 1968
- GEORGE DAVID SHANNONCorporal · September 17, 1968
- ALBERT WILSON SIRMANS JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- LARRY DEAN SMITHSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
From Jackson
- CARL J SADLERPrivate First Class · October 28, 1965
- BOBBY C VINSONPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ISAAC E HUNT JRSpecialist Four · August 2, 1966
- JOHN WESLEY FERRELLPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD CLARKPrivate First Class · January 19, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD MIDCALFPrivate First Class · May 15, 1967
- GEORGE P NICHOLSONStaff Sergeant · January 27, 1968
- BENNIE RAY JONESPrivate · May 17, 1968
- WILLIE GENE COOPERPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- RONALD DAVID HUTCHERSONSergeant · September 6, 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.