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CURTIS LEE JETER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 31, 1946 – December 16, 1966
Service recordCurtis Lee Jeter, of Union, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 16, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 49
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 31, 1946
- Home of record
- Union, South Carolina (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 16, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date December 16, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 49
- BILLY LEONARDSpecialist Four · December 16, 1966
- AARON L BRAMCaptain · December 17, 1966
- CEASAR BRYANTSergeant · December 17, 1966
- RICHARD LEE CAROTHERSPrivate First Class · December 17, 1966
From Union
- HENRY DEAN LANKFORDPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- TROY MURL PUCKETTSpecialist Four · August 3, 1967
- WALLACE THOMSON MCMAKINPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- LARRY EDWARD LAWSONPrivate First Class · April 30, 1973
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.