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Vilas, Gerald Frank
Army Warrant officer

Gerald Frank Vilas, age 22, from Yale, Michigan, Saint Clair county.

Parents: Walter J. Vilas

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Sunday, September 19, 1971
Death details: Killed in South Vietnam when the helicopter he was piloting was shot down.
Cemetery: Elmwood

Source: National Archives, Port Huron Times Herald (1971)

Welch, Robert Leroy
Marines Lance corporal

Robert Leroy Welch, age 22, from Yale, Michigan, Saint Clair county.

Parents: Luia (preceded in death 1969) and Russell

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Yale High (1966)

Date of death: Friday, July 3, 1970
Death details: Shot and killed while on patrol in Vietnam.

Source: National Archives, Port Huron Times Herald

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