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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clarence Michael Holland.

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CLARENCE MICHAEL HOLLAND

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 25, 1949 – March 6, 1969

Service record

Clarence Michael Holland, of Norfolk, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 55

Position of Panel 30W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Communications Center Specialist (72B)
Born
August 25, 1949
Home of record
Norfolk, Virginia (Norfolk (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1969
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

54 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 55

From Norfolk

All 104 names from Norfolk →

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.