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CECIL CURTIS MCKINNEY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 26, 1946 – October 5, 1968
Service recordCecil Curtis McKinney, of Midland, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 5, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 14
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Midland, Texas (Midland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 5, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date October 5, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 14
- DICK HOOTEN CHRISTENSENPrivate First Class · October 5, 1968
- GERALD EDMUND HAMMOND JRPrivate First Class · October 5, 1968
- LEO ROLAND MEYERSpecialist Four · October 5, 1968
- JAMES CECIL MOORESpecialist Four · October 5, 1968
From Midland
- IRBY DYER IIISergeant · December 2, 1966
- KENDELL DWAYNE CUTBIRTHStaff Sergeant · February 25, 1967
- TRAVIS A SIMMONS JRPetty Officer Third Class · March 16, 1967
- PAULINO GUTIERREZ LOPEZPrivate First Class · July 22, 1967
- BRUCE HALLSpecialist Four · December 27, 1967
- RAYMOND ALVIS NIEDECKENPrivate First Class · December 28, 1967
- WILLIAM ROBB STALLLance Corporal · January 18, 1968
- GARY EUGENE WATSONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- RUFUS WELDON HODGESSpecialist Four · January 17, 1969
- RAUL LERMA SEGOVIASpecialist Four · January 30, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.