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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 Jason Aireal Holes.

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JASON AIREAL HOLES

Corporal · U.S. Army

June 27, 1946 – June 6, 1968

Service record

Jason Aireal Holes, of Moses Lake, Washington, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 59W · Line 4

Position of Panel 59W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 27, 1946
Home of record
Moses Lake, Washington (Grant County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 6, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 59W, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Moses Lake

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.