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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Curtis Eugene Boots.

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CURTIS EUGENE BOOTS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 6, 1941 – October 5, 1968

Service record

Curtis Eugene Boots, of Watford City, North Dakota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 5, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41W · Line 10

Position of Panel 41W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 6, 1941
Home of record
Watford City, North Dakota (Mckenzie County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 5, 1968
Age
26
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date October 5, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 41W, Line 10

Same unit, same day

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.