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CURTIS ESTILL BINION
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 5, 1938 – July 5, 1966
Service recordCurtis Estill Binion, of Charleston, West Virginia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 132 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 132
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 5, 1938
- Home of record
- Charleston, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 5, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 8E, Line 132
- THEODORE WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · July 4, 1966
- MICHAEL MERLE BLANTONLance Corporal · July 5, 1966
- JAMES GARLAND BROWNLance Corporal · July 5, 1966
- DOUGLAS FLORESMaster Sergeant · July 5, 1966
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ANTHONY WILLStaff Sergeant · Panel 8E, Line 134
From Charleston
- CHARLES EDWIN HUDDLE JRCaptain · March 21, 1965
- JOHN ROBERT BALLFirst Lieutenant · June 19, 1965
- TIMOTHY MORGAN BLAKESecond Lieutenant · November 15, 1965
- WILLIAM OMER HILLSpecialist Five · December 11, 1966
- JOHN LEE STRICKLANDPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD BOGGSPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- EDWARD WALLACE BROWN JRSergeant First Class · May 1, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT SIMMONSStaff Sergeant · October 14, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD ROBERTSONPetty Officer Third Class · November 19, 1967
- ALBERT MORGAN CARWITHENSergeant · January 5, 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.