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JACK EUGENE HOLMES
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 18, 1951 – December 27, 1969
Service recordJack Eugene Holmes, of Abilene, Kansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 98
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 18, 1951
- Home of record
- Abilene, Kansas (Dickinson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 98
- MICHAEL RANDALL EARLChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 27, 1969
- ISOM JUNIOR GOODWINECorporal · December 27, 1969
- PERRY WOODROW JAMES HALLCorporal · December 27, 1969
- DONALD RAY LAMBERTPrivate · December 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GLENN ALFRED CAILSpecialist Four · Panel 15W, Line 97
- ISOM JUNIOR GOODWINECorporal · Panel 15W, Line 98
- DONALD IRVEN PRINGLESergeant First Class · Panel 15W, Line 100
- ROBERT DONALD SHERADINPrivate First Class · Panel 15W, Line 100
From Abilene
- WILLIAM EARL RAGERSergeant First Class · March 10, 1967
- JOHN HERBERT GFELLERPlatoon Sergeant · February 19, 1968
- JOSEPH HENRY INGRUMPetty Officer Second Class · May 12, 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.