- SURNAME
Yates
- FORENAME
Lee Carlton
- UNIT
U.S.N.R. UDT-14
- RANK
Lieutenant Junior Grade
- NUMBER
0-286799
- DATE OF DEATH
17th February 1945
- AGE
28
- GRAVESITE
National Memorial Cemetery,Honolulu,Hawaii Tablets of the Missing
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Nashville,Tennessee
husband of Nancy Dunn (nee Burge) Yates (1923-2013)
born 26.2.1916 Nashville,Tennessee
graduated Tennessee State Teachers College
U.S.N.R. 23.6.1942
commissioned Ensign 14.6.1943
Fort Schuyler,New York June - October 1943
Landing Craft School,San Diego,California October 1943 - February 1944
12th Naval District,San Francisco (Boat Officer) February - September 1944
UDT-14 September 1944
award Silver Star
killed on LCI(G)-449 off Iwo Jima - KIA gunfire from shore
Nashville National Cemetery,Nashville,Davidson County,Tennessee Section MA Site 21 (memorial stone)
DATE OF DEATH:
17-Feb-1945
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