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JOSEPH K HOLLINGSWORTH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 2, 1945 – April 19, 1969
Service recordJoseph K Hollingsworth, of Gloster, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 19, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 8
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 2, 1945
- Home of record
- Gloster, Mississippi (Amite County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 19, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 8
- GAYLEN RAY GALLIONCorporal · April 19, 1969
- RICHARD LAMAR HANNONCorporal · April 19, 1969
- LARRY NEIL HARPERCorporal · April 19, 1969
- GERARD VINCENT PALMACaptain · April 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES PAUL JENSENCorporal · Panel 26W, Line 9
- WALTER EUGENE JUSTICE SRSergeant First Class · Panel 26W, Line 9
- PERCY MOORESpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 10
From Gloster
- JAMES RONALD BATEMANPrivate First Class · March 9, 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.