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HOWARD EDGAR YOST JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 6, 1946 – March 30, 1969
Service recordHoward Edgar Yost JR, of Newark, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 95
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 19 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- December 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Newark, Ohio (Licking County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 95
- THOMAS JUDD TYRELLSergeant · March 30, 1969
- PAUL BRADLEY WESTSergeant · March 30, 1969
- WILLIAM CURTIS WILLIAMSONCorporal · March 30, 1969
- ROY ARNOLD WOMACKSergeant · March 30, 1969
From Newark
- PHILIP MARION SENSCorporal · October 30, 1965
- WALTER B OLIVERSergeant · November 4, 1965
- GRANT A RHODESSergeant · January 4, 1966
- WILLARD DAVID KEERANSergeant · May 24, 1966
- GERALD VERNON EPPLEYPrivate First Class · August 6, 1966
- JACKIE RAY BROWNPrivate First Class · September 29, 1966
- RICHARD JOHN EDRISCommander · November 1, 1966
- GARY WAYNE RITCHEYPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- PAUL RICHARD MYERSSpecialist Four · June 13, 1967
- DANIEL LEE KINNARDSpecialist Four · March 9, 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.