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JAMES IRVINE YATES
Corporal · U.S. Army
March 17, 1949 – September 22, 1969
Service recordJames Irvine Yates, of Mt Eden, Kentucky, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 22, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 127
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. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 17, 1949
- Home of record
- Mt Eden, Kentucky (Spencer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 22, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date September 22, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 127
- CLINTON EUGENE MILLERCorporal · September 22, 1969
- ROWLAND NATHANIEL AGARDPrivate · September 23, 1969
- SHELTON FERRELL BARRSSergeant First Class · September 23, 1969
- DENNIS JAMES BROWNINGSpecialist Five · September 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ERIC ANTHONY LORDCorporal · Panel 18W, Line 126
From Mt Eden
- PHILLIP SCOTT GLASSCorporal · May 14, 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.