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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Cecil Holmes.

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JAMES CECIL HOLMES

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 9, 1943 – September 6, 1968

Service record

James Cecil Holmes, of Sabina, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 6, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45W · Line 52

Position of Panel 45W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
January 9, 1943
Home of record
Sabina, Ohio (Clinton County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 6, 1968
Age
25
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

63 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45W, Line 52

Same unit, same day

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.