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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Curtis Lamar Duck.

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CURTIS LAMAR DUCK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 6, 1947 – February 16, 1967

Service record

Curtis Lamar Duck, of National City, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 41

Position of Panel 15E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
March 6, 1947
Home of record
National City, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 16, 1967
Age
19
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

80 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1967; 46 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 107 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From National City

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.