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FARIS E HOLLAND
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 5, 1936 – October 31, 1968
Service recordFaris E Holland, of Bellbrook, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 31, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 65
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Telecommunications Operations Chief (31Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- March 5, 1936
- Home of record
- Bellbrook, Ohio (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 31, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1968; ten of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 65
- LARRY KEITH HENDEEFirst Lieutenant · October 31, 1968
- DARREL EUGENE LAFEVRESergeant · October 31, 1968
- CHARLES RUIZ LEMUS JRPrivate First Class · October 31, 1968
- ALFRED RICHARD MAHONEY JRFirst Lieutenant · October 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD FRANK FLETCHERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 40W, Line 64
- NORBERT OTTO WERNERSergeant · Panel 40W, Line 69
From Bellbrook
- JOHN DAVID STRIPLING IIIPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
- ROBERT BYREL CANNONPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- DOUGLAS EUGENE FOSTERCorporal · May 16, 1968
- ANTHONY ROBERT WERNERSpecialist Four · May 8, 1969
- ERICH CARL ENGELHARDColonel · June 22, 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.