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DENNIS LEE KURZ
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 12, 1947 – January 29, 1969
Service recordDennis Lee Kurz, of Palmer, Nebraska, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 29, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 16
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- May 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Palmer, Nebraska (Merrick County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 16
- FRANK LEPTRONESpecialist Four · January 29, 1969
- CHARLES MANLEY MCGOVERNStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1969
- WILLIAM LARRY MOTTPrivate First Class · January 29, 1969
- MIGUEL ANGEL PUENTESSpecialist Four · January 29, 1969
From Palmer
- TERRY LYNN BERNEYStaff Sergeant · October 1, 1969
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.