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DARRELL EUGENE HOLDING
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 9, 1949 – January 13, 1969
Service recordDarrell Eugene Holding, of Woodward, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 13, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 83
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Woodward, Oklahoma (Woodward County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 13, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 83
- STEPHEN GERE KELLYSpecialist Four · January 13, 1969
- WILLIE JUNIOR MARSHALLSpecialist Four · January 13, 1969
- JOSEPH CRAIG MARTINPrivate First Class · January 13, 1969
- DENNIS JAMES MINKUSPrivate First Class · January 13, 1969
From Woodward
- GARTH WAYNE KECK JRLance Corporal · June 3, 1966
- WENDELL EUGENE CHURCHILLPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- THOMAS RAY ALLENMajor · July 31, 1967
- FRANCIS IVAN FOILESPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- EARL WAYNE MCDOWELLSpecialist Four · August 14, 1969
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.