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JAMES CHARLES HOLT
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 18, 1946 – December 4, 1968
Service recordJames Charles Holt, of Hawthorne, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 39
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Chemical Equipment Repairer (54D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Hawthorne, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 39
- JAMES ROBERT GAGESergeant · December 4, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE GLAZEPrivate First Class · December 4, 1968
- WILLIAM JEFFREY HODGESSergeant · December 4, 1968
- FRANK JOHNSON JRSpecialist Four · December 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN A TOWNSEND JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 37W, Line 43
From Hawthorne
- WILLIAM WALTE MCALLISTERMajor · April 22, 1965
- DONALD LEROY ANDERSON JRLance Corporal · September 18, 1966
- ROBERT CRAIG BOELZNERPrivate First Class · November 28, 1966
- THOMAS BLAKE DAILYFirst Lieutenant · May 21, 1967
- JAMES ALEX GAZDAGHLance Corporal · July 8, 1967
- PAUL EDWARD HAHNLance Corporal · August 23, 1967
- ORVAL L SKIRVINSergeant First Class · October 15, 1967
- THOMAS MICHAEL PINATELLIPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- TIM THOMASCorporal · February 13, 1968
- JAMES WALTER JONESCaptain · August 30, 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.