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DAVID CHARLES HOLDEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 26, 1945 – February 28, 1967
Service recordDavid Charles Holden, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 118
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1967; 27 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 118
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HEALCorporal · February 28, 1967
- VICTOR JORY HOMSLEYLance Corporal · February 28, 1967
- BUDD EDWARD HOODSpecialist Four · February 28, 1967
- WILLIAM WILLIS HOODPrivate First Class · February 28, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNIE F BARCHAK JRCorporal · Panel 15E, Line 112
- RICHARD LEONARD BOLTZPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 113
- JIMMY LEE LANGSTONPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 119
- MICHAEL LEE MYERSCorporal · Panel 15E, Line 120
- JOHN THOMAS WETZELPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 124
From Jamaica Plain
- GEORGE JOSEPH SKAPINSKYPrivate First Class · April 20, 1966
- JOHN FRANCIS CONCANNONSpecialist Four · May 4, 1966
- RICHARD D ABOLTINSpecialist Four · July 1, 1966
- DANIEL MACARTHUR KELLETTFirst Lieutenant · December 8, 1966
- JOHN PHILLIPS TAILLONSergeant · March 3, 1967
- CALVIN RONALD MACKAYSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH MAGEESpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
- DANIEL J CONTESTABILESergeant · May 5, 1968
- MICHAEL PATRICK VAUGHANFirst Lieutenant · June 24, 1968
- DENNIS LEROY MORRILLPrivate First Class · March 20, 1970
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.