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Donald Henry Holm
Specialist Four
C CO, 2ND BN, 28TH INFANTRY, 1ST INF DIV, USARV Army of the United States Fort Dodge, Iowa February 29, 1944 to November 18, 1967 DONALD H HOLM is on the Wall at Panel 30E, Line 16 |
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He graduated from Fort Dodge Senior High School in 1962. His yearbook photo above lists the following: "Don's hobbies include hunting and fishing . . . held an after school job . . . enjoyed all his classes . . . future is undecided." He enlisted in the Army in November or December 1966 and began his tour in Vietnam on May 15, 1967. The Associated Press released the following to the local area papers and titled: Fort Dodge, Waterloo Men Die in Vietnam Two more Iowans PVT Robert W. Deyo Jr., 19, Waterloo, and SP4 Donald H. Holm, 23, Fort Dodge have lost their lives in action in Vietnam, the Defense Department reports. Deyo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Deyo of Waterloo, died of gunshot wounds Friday in fighting near Dak To, his parents were informed. He had been in Vietnam with the Army's 4th Infantry Division since last August. His wife, Dianna, and a daughter also survive. Holm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holm of Fort Dodge, died Saturday, but other details were not known. He had been in the Army about a year and in Vietnam for six months. He also is survived by his wife, Patricia; three brothers and three sisters, all of Fort Dodge. Official records showed Donald died, along with two other men, as result of wounds received while on night perimeter defense when hit by fragments from hostile mortars. The unit was in the vicinity of FSB Caisson VI, 6 kilometers S-SW of An Loc, Vietnam. The Three men killed were:
Donald Henry Holm is buried in North Lawn Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa. He was survived by his mother Elizabeth E. Holm, his father Henry Harry Holm, his wife Patricia A. Holm, and six siblings. They had no children. 
- - The Virtual Wall, November 20, 2019
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