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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 Jack English Holt.

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JACK ENGLISH HOLT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 5, 1944 – January 1, 1967

Service record

Jack English Holt, of Columbus, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 1, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 106

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
May 5, 1944
Home of record
Columbus, Georgia (Muscogee County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 1, 1967
Age
22
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date January 1, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 106

Same unit, same day

From Columbus

All 117 names from Columbus →

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.