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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Delbert Holland.

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WILLIAM DELBERT HOLLAND

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 9, 1948 – December 31, 1967

Service record

William Delbert Holland, of Electra, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 8

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
498 MED CO USARV
Born
February 9, 1948
Home of record
Electra, Texas (Wichita County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 31, 1967
Age
19
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1967; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “498 MED CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 8

Same unit, same day

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.