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FREDERICK N CURTIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 18, 1948 – May 28, 1969
Service recordFrederick N Curtis, of Osterville, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 7
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Osterville, Massachusetts (Barnstable County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 7
- GAYLORD MARTIN COUCHCorporal · May 28, 1969
- GARY WAYNE COXSpecialist Four · May 28, 1969
- JOHN TRAVIS DAVISSergeant · May 28, 1969
- PATRICK MARTIN DIXONFirst Lieutenant · May 28, 1969
From Osterville
- JIMMY LEE THOMPSONPrivate · May 5, 1970
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.