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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 Woodrow Hurlock.

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CURTIS WOODROW HURLOCK

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 23, 1938 – March 27, 1967

Service record

Curtis Woodrow Hurlock, of Arcadia, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 27, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 57

Position of Panel 17E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
April 23, 1938
Home of record
Arcadia, Florida (De Soto County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 27, 1967
Age
28
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 57

From Arcadia

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.