Rank: Colonel
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 1203 – Tank Unit Commander
Awards: Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, United Nations Service Medal for Korea
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: UH-1D, Tail # 66-00977, Passenger
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 19-Mar-2020
Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
Marital status: Married to Harriet R. Holder, two sons, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 27-Nov-1967
Incident date: 21-Mar-1968
Date of casualty: 21-Mar-1968
Age at death: 48
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC). Aircraft loss, crash not at sea.
Leonard Donald Holder died from burns received while passenger on a military aircraft on routine flight when the aircraft crashed and burned during routine landing.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
COL Leonard Donald Holder
SP4 Daniel Thomas
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 054 118*
Place of interment: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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