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JAMES WENDELL HOLBROOK
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 27, 1947 – May 28, 1968
Service recordJames Wendell Holbrook, of Paramount, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 28, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 64W · Line 10
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Paramount, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 64W, Line 10
- RONALD GENE HEMBREEPetty Officer Third Class · May 28, 1968
- JOSEPH ARNOLD HILLLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- BEN WILLIS HOWELLSergeant First Class · May 28, 1968
- PHILLIP DANIEL MILLERLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
From Paramount
- HUGH G SKIPPERSergeant · December 27, 1966
- CHRIS STEVEN EVANSPrivate First Class · July 11, 1967
- GARY LEIGH NORDQUISTSergeant · January 24, 1968
- MELVIN LEE MARTZPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- RANDALL MICHAEL WAUGHCorporal · July 5, 1968
- DALE ARTHUR MORROWSergeant · September 16, 1968
- ROBERT ELEE JACKSONPrivate First Class · November 12, 1968
- GARY WAYNE HULSESpecialist Four · November 21, 1968
- RICHARD WESLEY STITTPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- DAVID ELLIS OGDENStaff Sergeant · May 6, 1970
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.