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FREDERICK LEE HOLMES
Commander · U.S. Navy
December 19, 1936 – December 30, 1971
Service recordFrederick Lee Holmes, of Morgan Hill, California, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on December 30, 1971, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 92
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. Navy
- Rank
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ATKRON 16
- Born
- December 19, 1936
- Home of record
- Morgan Hill, California (Santa Clara County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 30, 1971
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1971. In December 1971, 64 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 2W, Line 92
- LAWRENCE GENE STOLZMajor · June 29, 1971
- DALE FRANCIS KOONSCaptain · September 25, 1971
- VINCENT EDWARD GALKASpecialist Four · December 26, 1971
- ALBERT SIMON ROBALIN JRSpecialist Five · December 28, 1971
From Morgan Hill
- JAMES MICHAEL DEABREPrivate First Class · October 12, 1967
- JOHN NISHIMURAPrivate First Class · December 10, 1967
- RICHARD PEREZPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- ARNOLD LEE LEONARD JRLance Corporal · June 16, 1968
- RICHARD CALUDE GARCIAStaff Sergeant · May 3, 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.