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CURTIS NEIL EVANS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 26, 1948 – September 2, 1968
Service recordCurtis Neil Evans, of Gladstone, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 25
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
- May 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Gladstone, Oregon (Clackamas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 25
- MICHAEL EUGENE CONSTANTINESpecialist Four · September 2, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE DAVISPrivate First Class · September 2, 1968
- JOHNNY FOGLEMANPrivate First Class · September 2, 1968
- JEROME FORTCorporal · September 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE CARROLL ROSEStaff Sergeant · Panel 45W, Line 28
From Gladstone
- WALTER DAVID FREEMANLance Corporal · December 2, 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.