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JOHN YEAST
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 21, 1946 – August 3, 1967
Service recordJohn Yeast, of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 3, 1967, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 76
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Edinboro, Pennsylvania (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 3, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date August 3, 1967; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 76
- GERALD D BAKERSpecialist Four · August 4, 1967
- PATRICK RALPH DONERPrivate First Class · August 4, 1967
- DAVID ALLEN ECHOLSPrivate First Class · August 4, 1967
- EVERETT STRATTON JRLance Corporal · August 4, 1967
From Edinboro
- JAMES DALE BOWERSPrivate First Class · July 2, 1966
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.