Name:
Melvin A. Holland
Rank:
Technical Sergeant
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Unit:
1st Combat Evaluation Group
Date of Death:
1968-03-11
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Decoration:
Purple Heart, Air Force Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal,
Comments:
On 11 March 1968, Technical Sergeant Melvin Arnold Holland was serving with LIMA 85 (1043rd Radar Evaluation Squadron, 7th Air Force, in Laos near the border with North Vietnam. LIMA 85 was a highly classified TSQ-81/TACAN site on a Laotian mountaintop near the North Vietnamese border. On 11 March 1968, eleven US Air Force men (including TSGT Holland) were lost when the site was overrun by the North Vietnamese. TSGT Holland's body was not recovered. His name is located on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial at panel 44E, line 21.