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HORACE EARLE YOUNG
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 12, 1931 – May 11, 1965
Service recordHorace Earle Young, of Aledo, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- November 12, 1931
- Home of record
- Aledo, Illinois (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1965
- Age
- 33
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1965. In May 1965, 89 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 114
- AMOS CARLTON WATSONSpecialist Four · May 11, 1965
- IVAN RAY SMITHPrivate First Class · May 13, 1965
- JOSEPH RAY WYNN JRLance Corporal · May 14, 1965
- DONALD EDWARD CLOSECaptain · May 15, 1965
Same unit, same day
- JOHNIE KING CULBREATHSpecialist Four · Panel 1E, Line 113
From Aledo
- ROBERT THOMAS FREEDPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- JAMES KENNETH FRYELance Corporal · December 1, 1967
- GORDON CURTISS BROWNPetty Officer First Class · May 19, 1968
- TIMOTHY JOE MCCREIGHTSpecialist Four · December 13, 1969
- MEREDITH GLENN ANDERSONMajor · April 28, 1970
- DAVID EUGENE WESTPrivate First Class · October 19, 1970
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.