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SAMUEL F HOLLIFIELD JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 23, 1948 – January 7, 1968
Service recordSamuel F Hollifield JR, of Lexington, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 7, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 69
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- May 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Lexington, North Carolina (Davidson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 7, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date January 7, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 33E, Line 69
- ARNOLDO LEONEL CARRILLOCorporal · January 7, 1968
- RUFUS HOODPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- JAMES MACKENZIE INMANPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- DAVID LEE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
From Lexington
- HAROLD DANIEL MCCARNCaptain · November 17, 1965
- RICHARD ROOSEVELT BANKSStaff Sergeant · June 30, 1966
- ROBERT FRANKLIN MELTON JRSpecialist Four · January 15, 1967
- JACOB H CUNNINGHAM IIISpecialist Four · February 14, 1967
- WILLIAM FORDSergeant First Class · October 23, 1967
- JIMMY CARROLL HESTERCorporal · December 24, 1968
- RONALD FRED LEONARDSpecialist Four · March 20, 1970
- ANDREW JACKSON NEWCOMBECorporal · February 14, 1971
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.