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JAMES EDWARD YOUNG
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 25, 1945 – April 16, 1968
Service recordJames Edward Young, of Brownsville, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 16, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 25, 1945
- Home of record
- Brownsville, Tennessee (Haywood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 16, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 25
- WARD LEROY ANTHONYCorporal · April 17, 1968
- GARY MICHAEL ARCHIBALDPrivate First Class · April 17, 1968
- HOWARD WAYNE BANDELIERPetty Officer Third Class · April 17, 1968
- VERNON WALTER BURGESONStaff Sergeant · April 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD DOUGLAS HINSONSpecialist Four · Panel 50E, Line 15
- ERNEST WILLIAM SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 50E, Line 22
From Brownsville
- WILLIE COLEMAN JRPrivate First Class · January 22, 1967
- LARRY ADRIAN LANDCorporal · March 6, 1967
- ANDREW CURRIEPrivate · July 4, 1967
- NORMAN EDWARD LANE JRFirst Lieutenant · March 29, 1968
- WILLIAM LEWIS HAAKLance Corporal · July 25, 1969
- RICHARD KEITH JOHNSTONSpecialist Four · August 17, 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.