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JOSEPH PAUL YATSKO JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 3, 1942 – December 18, 1965
Service recordJoseph Paul Yatsko JR, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 27
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Parachutist, Infantry Unit Commander (71542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 3, 1942
- Home of record
- Levittown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1965
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 27
- STUART KING TWEEDYSecond Lieutenant · December 18, 1965
- CLIFFORD LEROY WHIPPLELance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- ROBERT JOHN WILKINSLance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- LOUIS JAMES CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · December 19, 1965
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ALLEN GRAYSergeant · Panel 4E, Line 23
- SAMMIE GRIFFINPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 23
- DANIEL JOHN GUILMETPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 23
- RICHARD W PETERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 25
From Levittown
- JOHN WILLIAM THOMASSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
- ALAN ROBERT SCHULTZLance Corporal · August 11, 1967
- PATRICK ROBERT ROYPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- THEODORE K KALEIKINI JRSergeant · January 18, 1968
- DENNIS THOMAS CUNNANEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- STEVEN MICHAEL BEZENSKISpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- STANLEY R STELLMACH JRSergeant · April 14, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS DEENY IIIPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- ARTHUR MICHAEL DAYSpecialist Five · May 8, 1969
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.