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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Curtis Malroy Voss.

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CURTIS MALROY VOSS

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

November 5, 1931 – January 10, 1967

Service record

Curtis Malroy Voss, of Rosholt, South Dakota, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 10, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 8

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
November 5, 1931
Home of record
Rosholt, South Dakota (Roberts County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 10, 1967
Age
35
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 8

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.