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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: April 8, 2017
Caption: PFC Howard Eslie Hollar
Additional Description: H&S Co, 1st BN, 26th Marines, 3rd MarDiv, III MAF, United Stated Marine Corps.

February 06, 1948 to March 06, 1968

Howard was born in Hickory North Carolina and moved to Charlottesville in 1957. As a teen, he worked at the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In Restaurant. He attended Lane High School with his friends Sam Herring Jr. (Corporal, USMC), Sandi Overton, Rick Breeden and Dale Yager. After graduation in 1967 he joined the USMC. With 8 months left in the USMC he was sent to Vietnam to reinforce the Khe Sahn Combat Base that was under siege. The C-123 he was in was hit by gunfire and crashed into a mountain.

He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal and the Vietnam Campaign Medal. Howard is buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, MO.
Submitted: April 15, 2017, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p380246
File Size: 1.500 Megabytes

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