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JOHN LEE HOLMES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 11, 1943 – June 12, 1968
Service recordJohn Lee Holmes, of Albany, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 12, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 32
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
- May 11, 1943
- Home of record
- Albany, Oregon (Linn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 32
- DENTON JOSEPH HASDORFFSergeant · June 12, 1968
- ROBERT CARROLL HAWKINSPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- LARRY DON HUMPHREYSPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- CLIFFORD JENKINS JRSpecialist Four · June 12, 1968
From Albany
- WRIGHT BARTWYN HAMILLPrivate First Class · November 4, 1965
- ROLLIE LEE BOLDENSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- WILLIAM E SODERSTROMSergeant · May 6, 1966
- LARRY DALE KNIGHTMajor · October 7, 1966
- EARL FREDERICK SMITHSecond Lieutenant · January 26, 1967
- LLOYD ALVAN DUNCANPrivate First Class · December 9, 1967
- GERALD ALLEN HIUKKAPrivate First Class · January 13, 1968
- JIMMY LYNN DELANOLance Corporal · March 13, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE BURKHARTSergeant · March 26, 1968
- RICHARD ARTHUR AKIN JRPrivate First Class · September 3, 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.