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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Lee Holm.

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DENNIS LEE HOLM

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 16, 1943 – May 22, 1967

Service record

Dennis Lee Holm, of Rapid City, South Dakota, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 84

Position of Panel 20E 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Counterintelligence Officer (9666)
Born
September 16, 1943
Home of record
Rapid City, South Dakota (Pennington County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 22, 1967
Age
23
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 84

From Rapid City

All 16 names from Rapid City →

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.