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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Edward Hollis.

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JOHN EDWARD HOLLIS

Seaman · U.S. Navy

October 8, 1946 – November 11, 1970

Service record

John Edward Hollis, of Apple Springs, Texas, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 11, 1970, in Kien Phong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 6W · Line 51

Position of Panel 6W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Unit (as recorded)
USS BENEWAH APB 35
Born
October 8, 1946
Home of record
Apple Springs, Texas (Trinity County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 11, 1970
Age
24
Province
Kien Phong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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11 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kien Phong Province that day. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 6W, Line 51

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.