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JAMES CURTIS HOUGHTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 30, 1945 – December 16, 1967
Service recordJames Curtis Houghton, of Downey, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 16, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Fire Control Repairer (45G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 30, 1945
- Home of record
- Downey, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 16, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date December 16, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 10
- JAMES COMPTON GROOVERPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- JAMES YBARRA HIDALGOSpecialist Five · December 16, 1967
- VIRGIL LEMAR HITERPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- FATHIES KELLY JRPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS BEEB CHAMBERSSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 8
- MICHAEL TIMOTHY COLLINSSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 9
- EDWARD ARTHUR FINLAYSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 9
- DAVID RANDOLPH GIFFORDSpecialist Five · Panel 32E, Line 9
- JAMES YBARRA HIDALGOSpecialist Five · Panel 32E, Line 10
- KENNETH DONALD KRALICKStaff Sergeant · Panel 32E, Line 11
- THOMAS EUGENE PRIESTHOFFSergeant · Panel 32E, Line 13
- JAMES WILLIAM WESTPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 14
From Downey
- ROBERT RONALD BOHLERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- FRED ALBERT TRYON JRPrivate First Class · December 18, 1965
- CLIFFORD LEROY WHIPPLELance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- WALTER L WONNACOTTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- JON LAIRD MESSERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- MICHAEL CHEROFFSpecialist Four · May 8, 1967
- DURAND GARFIELD LIGGETTPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- WAYNE CLARK HARMONCorporal · May 19, 1967
- CHARLES RUSSELL LAUERCorporal · June 18, 1967
- PABLO DURANPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
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.