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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Curtis Brockington.

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CURTIS BROCKINGTON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 20, 1947 – July 3, 1966

Service record

Curtis Brockington, of Harbor City, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 123

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 20, 1947
Home of record
Harbor City, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 3, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 123

Same unit, same day

From Harbor City

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.