Vincent Yarashes (1920-1944)

Vincent Yarashes (1920-1944)

Vincent Yarashes was born in Luzerne, Pennsylvania on August 28, 1920. He was the son of Lithuanian immigrants; his father was a coal miner. He graduated from Luzerne High School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September, 1938 with the class of 1942. Yarashes attended Dickinson for two years and was a track and football participant as well as a member of the Commons Club.

He enlisted in the United States Navy in July, 1942 and trained as a naval aviator. Ensign Yarashes died in the South Pacific in a plane crash on July 10, 1944.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).

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Dickinson College Archives
Date of Post: 
2005
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