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WILLIAM HENRY HOLTHOFF
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 13, 1946 – March 21, 1967
Service recordWilliam Henry Holthoff, of Champaign, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Champaign, Illinois (Champaign County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 5
- JAMES RAYMOND HINTZSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- DANIEL JENNINGS HOLCOMBSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- JAMES HARVEY HOPSONPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- CHARLES ERNEST HOSKING JRMaster Sergeant · March 21, 1967
From Champaign
- RICHARD E NUTTPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- CHARLES LESTER GETMANCaptain · July 19, 1966
- WAYNE EUGENE DAWSONSergeant · December 19, 1966
- DENNIS GRANT NICOLAPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- STEVEN ANDRE BROQUISTSecond Lieutenant · May 14, 1967
- LLOYD LYNN HITCHINSSecond Lieutenant · December 13, 1967
- EDWARD WALDREN CRUMMajor · February 6, 1968
- DONALD MILTON DALESpecialist Four · February 15, 1968
- CHARLES KENNETH HENSONSergeant · March 27, 1968
- ROBERT PAUL RIGGINSMajor · April 22, 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.