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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Curtis Richard Bohlscheid.

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CURTIS RICHARD BOHLSCHEID

Captain · U.S. Marine Corps

December 9, 1936 – June 11, 1967

Service record

Curtis Richard Bohlscheid, of Pocatello, Idaho, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 11, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 91

Position of Panel 21E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
Unit (as recorded)
HMM 265 MAG 16 1 MAW FMFPAC
Born
December 9, 1936
Home of record
Pocatello, Idaho (Bannock County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1967
Age
30
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “HMM 265 MAG 16 1 MAW FMFPAC”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 91

Same unit, same day

From Pocatello

All 15 names from Pocatello →

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.