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CURTIS KEITH COOK JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 1, 1949 – April 18, 1969
Service recordCurtis Keith Cook JR, of Augusta, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 18, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 106
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- February 1, 1949
- Home of record
- Augusta, Michigan (Kalamazoo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 106
- CHARLES CHANDLERSpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- JOHN BEECHLY COMBSSergeant · April 18, 1969
- ROBERT MAURICE CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · April 18, 1969
- GEORGE CLARENCE DAHLMANSpecialist Five · April 18, 1969
From Augusta
- FRANCIS EUGENE SANDERSPrivate First Class · December 25, 1967
- GENE PAUL STUIFBERGENStaff Sergeant · November 27, 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.