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YAZZIE B TEN HUSKIE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 15, 1945 – February 4, 1968
Service recordYazzie B Ten Huskie, of Pinon, Arizona, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 23
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- February 15, 1945
- Home of record
- Pinon, Arizona (Navajo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 140 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 23
- ROBERT E HOPKINSSergeant · February 4, 1968
- ROBERT WALKER HUBBARDCaptain · February 4, 1968
- ERNEST LINWOOD JACOBS JRCorporal · February 4, 1968
- GEORGE PERCY KENDALL JRGunnery Sergeant · February 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EARL THOMAS CLASSENPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 20
- ROBERT E HOPKINSSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 23
- GARRY FRANK LAWRENCEPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 24
From Pinon
- LEONARD LEE YAZZIEPrivate First Class · May 28, 1968
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.