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CURTIS DEAN SCOWDEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 25, 1946 – February 6, 1968
Service recordCurtis Dean Scowden, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 25, 1946
- Home of record
- St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 69
- JAMES SEFRHANSSergeant · February 6, 1968
- PAUL DAVID SHAMP JRStaff Sergeant · February 6, 1968
- HAROLD GENE SHIRLEYMaster Sergeant · February 6, 1968
- NOLAN LESTER SIMMONSLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS EDWARD BURKESecond Lieutenant · Panel 37E, Line 50
- BERNARD JOHN BURNS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 51
- WILLIAM DAVID ELTRINGHAMSpecialist Five · Panel 37E, Line 54
From St Louis
- EDDIE LOUIS SMITHStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
- HAROLD DALE MEYERKORDLieutenant · March 16, 1965
- GEORGE CRAIG SMITHMajor · April 3, 1965
- TERRY WAYNE MILLSSpecialist Four · April 19, 1965
- DONNIE D EZELLStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- RONALD JOHN WARRENStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- DALE LEROY TOOLOOSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1965
- JOSEPH L TSCHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 1965
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.