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DAVID LEE CURTIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 15, 1951 – June 17, 1971
Service recordDavid Lee Curtis, of Weippe, Idaho, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 17, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 79
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 15, 1951
- Home of record
- Weippe, Idaho (Clearwater County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 79
- WAYNE JAMES BILLEAUDSpecialist Five · June 17, 1971
- ERNEST DWIGHT HART JRPrivate First Class · June 17, 1971
- HAROLD EUGENE IMLER JRSpecialist Four · June 17, 1971
- TERRY LEON KELLYPrivate First Class · June 17, 1971
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.