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JOHN HARRIS HOLMES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 19, 1949 – December 20, 1967
Service recordJohn Harris Holmes, of Tylertown, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 30
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Tylertown, Mississippi (Walthall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1967; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 30
- DANNY JAY FISHERPrivate First Class · December 20, 1967
- GREGORY GOREPrivate First Class · December 20, 1967
- CHARLES LARRY HOUSLEYSpecialist Four · December 20, 1967
- CARL EUGENE MURRAYSpecialist Four · December 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GARY MICHAEL RISTSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 33
From Tylertown
- NELTON RAYMOND BRYANTSergeant · October 3, 1965
- FORREST GOODWINFirst Lieutenant · March 2, 1967
- WILLIAM ARTHUR GIBSONPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL HOLMESPrivate First Class · October 22, 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.