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RONALD FREDERICK YALE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
February 22, 1946 – March 24, 1971
Service recordRonald Frederick Yale, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 24, 1971, in North Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 74
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- February 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (Summit County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1971
- Age
- 25
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1971. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 74
- THOMAS CHRIST SHEPHERD SRSergeant First Class · March 24, 1971
- WILLIAM DAVID SMITHSpecialist Four · March 24, 1971
- GREGORY MARTIN STONECorporal · March 24, 1971
- WILLIAM F THOMPSON JRSpecialist Four · March 24, 1971
From Cuyahoga Falls
- HOWARD LEROY BARDENCaptain · January 31, 1967
- OWEN RAY EMERYFirst Lieutenant · February 22, 1967
- JAMES DOUGLAS FAZZINOCorporal · June 11, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SEERYLieutenant (junior grade) · February 19, 1969
- PAUL ERIC LEESCorporal · February 5, 1970
- CLAYTON DONALD WHITCHERSergeant · April 7, 1970
- MICHAEL RICHARD KEMPELPetty Officer Second Class · August 27, 1970
- EDWARD MEARL BALLSpecialist Five · April 25, 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.