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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allen Lee Holt.

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ALLEN LEE HOLT

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

April 10, 1932 – July 5, 1965

Service record

Allen Lee Holt, of Topeka, Kansas, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on July 5, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 28

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
I COR AVN CO
Born
April 10, 1932
Home of record
Topeka, Kansas (Shawnee County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 5, 1965
Age
33
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1965. In July 1965, 103 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 28

From Topeka

All 39 names from Topeka →

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.