THE WALL OF FACES

U S Army Training Center
Fort Leonard Wood - Missouri
2nd Training Brigade
5th Battalion
Company 'C'

Commenced Training - 20 September 1965
Completed Training - 11 November 1965

Photo of Harry P. McFalls is as a Platoon Sergeant.

Three members of Company 'C' were also KIA in Viet Nam.
SP4 William Henry Holthoff - Champaign, IL
SP4 Peter Gerald Lechnir - Milwaukee, WI
SSG Donald P. Yarrington Jr - Salt Lake City, UT

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

Bill was brother to my good griend Don. Nice guy
RIP.

SP4 William H. Holthoff was a Combat Engineer serving with the 67th Infantry Detachment (Radar), 173rd Engineer Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade. On March 21, 1967, SP4 Holthoff died in Vietnam in what the Army labeled “accidental self-destruction” from small arms fire. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org; obituary from the News-Gazette (Champaign, IL), March 28, 1967, courtesy of Stephanie, Reference Librarian, Adult Services, Champaign Public Library, Champaign, IL]

Dear Sp4 William Holthoff, Thank you for your service as a Combat Engineer. I researched you on the 53rd anniversary of your tour start, sad. It was just Independence Day, and there is no better time to honor you. Please watch over the USA, it still needs your strength. Rest in peace with the angels.