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DOUGLAS C HOLLAND
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 24, 1944 – April 9, 1967
Service recordDouglas C Holland, of Anita, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 4
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Journalist (71Q)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 24, 1944
- Home of record
- Anita, Iowa (Cass County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1967; two of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 4
- ARTHUR A GLEASONPrivate · April 9, 1967
- GLENN JOHN HLAVACEKCorporal · April 9, 1967
- JAMES LAWRENCE HOLROYDPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH ARTHUR CULLENSecond Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 2
- ARTHUR A GLEASONPrivate · Panel 18E, Line 4
- HAROLD B KINGSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 5
From Anita
- KEVIN GAIL BURKEFirst Lieutenant · November 20, 1968
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.