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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Woods Holman.

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DONALD WOODS HOLMAN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 18, 1946 – March 10, 1970

Service record

Donald Woods Holman, of England, Arkansas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 104

Position of Panel 13W 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
Regular
Occupation
Tank Unit Commander (1203)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
September 18, 1946
Home of record
England, Arkansas (Lonoke County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1970
Age
23
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1970; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 104

Same unit, same day

From England

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.