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CURTIS DEAN SNITKER
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 29, 1948 – February 1, 1968
Service recordCurtis Dean Snitker, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 1, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 61
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Linn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 1, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 1, 1968; 31 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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 36E, Line 61
- DIEROTHER BROWNStaff Sergeant · February 1, 1968
- LYNN HUDSON SMITHFirst Lieutenant · February 1, 1968
- GLENN DEAN TAYLORSpecialist Four · February 1, 1968
- RALPH LAYTON THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
From Cedar Rapids
- ROBERT MILVOY HORSKYMajor · December 11, 1965
- DENNIS LEE EILERSCaptain · December 24, 1965
- JAMES PHILLIP SCHIMBERGSpecialist Four · January 9, 1966
- MARK LEO ENGLISHSpecialist Four · December 18, 1966
- JOHN WALTER WALLCorporal · April 21, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD GRADOVILLELance Corporal · June 16, 1967
- WAYNE FRANK WHITEMANLance Corporal · October 22, 1967
- HOWARD EMERSON HANSON JRSpecialist Four · January 8, 1968
- DANIEL JAMES KAPLANLance Corporal · February 7, 1968
- HERBERT RAY ALDRIDGEPrivate First Class · March 6, 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.