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THOMAS EUGENE HOLLOWAY
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 27, 1947 – April 12, 1969
Service recordThomas Eugene Holloway, of New Castle, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 12, 1969, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 64
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Quartermaster (QM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 27, 1947
- Home of record
- New Castle, Indiana (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 12, 1969; three of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 64
- DANNY WILLIAM HOULEPrivate First Class · April 12, 1969
- CLAUDE THOMAS JENKINSPrivate First Class · April 12, 1969
- MARYUS NAPOLEON JONESSergeant First Class · April 12, 1969
- CORBIN CLARK TINDALLFirst Lieutenant · April 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DONALD GLENN DROZLieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 27W, Line 63
From New Castle
- JIMMIE LEE MINCKSSergeant · October 11, 1965
- GEORGE MICHAEL SLOANPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- CHARLES EVERETT CRANDALLPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1968
- BRADFORD LEE TROUTSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
- LARRY WAYNE DARLINGSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- RONALD DAVISPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- FREDRICK JOE SMITHCorporal · July 6, 1968
- DAVID CLAUD JASPERSpecialist Four · November 19, 1968
- TOMMY RAY EATONSpecialist Four · December 17, 1968
- JOHN ARTHUR KEESLINGSergeant · May 7, 1969
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.