The Wall › Panel 3W › Colorado › Louis Arthur Yugel
LOUIS ARTHUR YUGEL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 2, 1951 – April 21, 1971
Service recordLouis Arthur Yugel, of Thornton, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 2
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 2, 1951
- Home of record
- Thornton, Colorado (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 21, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1971; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 2
- WILLIAM ESLEY WOOD JRMajor · April 21, 1971
- WILLIAM DAVID HOLMESSpecialist Five · April 22, 1971
- DENNIS ALAN JENKINSPrivate First Class · April 22, 1971
- ROBERT MORRISON PERSINGERWarrant Officer 1 · April 22, 1971
From Thornton
- FREDERICK ANTHONY VIGILSergeant · January 22, 1971
- BRUCE ALLEN BOWMANSpecialist Five · March 8, 1971
- JOHN WAYNE SIMMONSPrivate First Class · May 10, 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.