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CURTIS CLEVELAND DEES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 7, 1938 – May 5, 1969
Service recordCurtis Cleveland Dees, of Kerrville, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 4
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 7, 1938
- Home of record
- Kerrville, Texas (Kerr County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1969
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1969; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 4
- RICHARD L BAUMBERGER JRPetty Officer Third Class · May 5, 1969
- WOODROW WILSON BISHOP JRSpecialist Four · May 5, 1969
- ODELL CRAIGSpecialist Four · May 5, 1969
- JAMES MARION ELLISSergeant · May 5, 1969
From Kerrville
- MANUEL REYES DENTONPetty Officer Third Class · October 8, 1963
- ANTHONY EDMOND KUNZSergeant · May 4, 1967
- RONALD HOWARD PFEUFFERLance Corporal · July 27, 1967
- RICHARD BILL LOZANOPrivate First Class · September 5, 1967
- DUANE AARON JOHNSONSergeant · August 13, 1968
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.