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JACK BERNARD YOUNG
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
October 3, 1930 – March 11, 1969
Service recordJack Bernard Young, of Clendenin, West Virginia, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 11, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 17
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- October 3, 1930
- Home of record
- Clendenin, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1969
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 17
- JULIO CESAR WELDPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
- HARRISON WINE JRPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
- FRED J BRIDGES JRSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- THOMAS BRIGHT JRSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
From Clendenin
- MARVIN DEWAYNE CANTERBURYSpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
- PAUL RICHARD WITHROWSpecialist Four · July 6, 1971
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.