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COLIN PLUMMER HURD
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
October 24, 1945 – May 9, 1970
Service recordColin Plummer Hurd, of Lovell, Maine, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 6
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Air Observation Pilot (1981)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- October 24, 1945
- Home of record
- Lovell, Maine (Oxford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1970; ten of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 6
- TERRY LYNN HENRYWarrant Officer 1 · May 9, 1970
- WILEY DEAN HOOKSSpecialist Four · May 9, 1970
- DOUGLAS JOHN ITRISpecialist Five · May 9, 1970
- MICHAEL GREGORY JENSONStaff Sergeant · May 9, 1970
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.