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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Philip Stephen Hollaway.

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PHILIP STEPHEN HOLLAWAY

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

January 11, 1948 – December 14, 1967

Service record

Philip Stephen Hollaway, of Birmingham, Alabama, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 14, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 92

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mortarman (0341)
Born
January 11, 1948
Home of record
Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 14, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 92

From Birmingham

All 160 names from Birmingham →

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.