YOST, Edwin A.
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Yost, Edwin A. Date of birth:  Unknown Nationality:  American       SILVER STAR Rank: Sergeant Unit: Company C, 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion, U.S. Army Awarded on: 1943 Action: For action performed on 14 September 1943, south of the junction of the Calore River and La Cosa Creek/Province of Salerno, Italy. Details: HQ, 5th Army, General Order No. 71 (1943). Edwin A. Yost was part of the crew of 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion M10 Wolverine tankjager genaamd “Jinx”, who were all decorated with the Silver Star for one and the same action in which five German PzKpfw IV's, a ammunition truck, an armoured halftrack, a pill-box and a fortified house containing German military, were destroyed. The crew consisted of Staff Sergeant Raymond G. Murphy, Sergeant Edwin A. Yost, Corporal Alvin B. Q. Johnson, Private first class Joseph O'Bryan, Private Clyde T. Stokes and Private Claude H. Stokes (form left to right on the pop-up photo).         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Gary Adrion Information source(s):   - Huff, R.A. (editor), The Fighting 36th – A Pictorial History of the 36th “Texas” Infantry Division, Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, Kentucky, USA, 1995 (reprint) - Yeide, H., The Tank Killers – A History of America’s World War II Tank Destroyer Force, Casemate, Havertown, U.S.A., 2005 - U.S. Army Center Of Military History