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JERRY JAMES CURTIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 21, 1948 – August 19, 1969
Service recordJerry James Curtis, of Camden, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 19, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 66
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- September 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Camden, Arkansas (Ouachita County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 66
- REGINALD WAYNE BURRISSpecialist Four · August 19, 1969
- JERRY N CREASYCorporal · August 19, 1969
- GASPAR CRUZ-LEBRONPrivate First Class · August 19, 1969
- WILLIAM JOHN DAWSONSergeant · August 19, 1969
From Camden
- RILEY JERMANYPrivate First Class · July 6, 1966
- JAMES CARTHELL MCHENRYLance Corporal · January 24, 1968
- WILLIAM HENDERSON MASONColonel · May 22, 1968
- CHARLES RANDEL HUTCHISONStaff Sergeant · October 26, 1968
- GERALD EUGENE BOOTH HAMMPetty Officer Third Class · November 1, 1968
- ALVIN WALLACE FORDSpecialist Four · January 7, 1969
- ALVIN GORDON JRSpecialist Four · February 5, 1969
- HARVEY LEE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · September 17, 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.