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MERRIL HOLT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 22, 1949 – June 20, 1970
Service recordMerril Holt, of Matoaka, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 73
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- October 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Matoaka, West Virginia (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1970. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 73
- THOMAS DWAIN GRIFFINPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
- FREDERICK WAYNE HOPSONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
- LARRY JOSEPH LOWTHERSpecialist Five · June 20, 1970
- JOSEPH PATRICK LUTZSpecialist Four · June 20, 1970
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS LEE CUSSONPrivate First Class · Panel 9W, Line 72
- THOMAS DWAIN GRIFFINPrivate First Class · Panel 9W, Line 73
From Matoaka
- DANNY CARL WHITEPrivate First Class · October 15, 1966
- JOHNNY RAY MILLSLance Corporal · January 25, 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.