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JIMMY LEE CURRY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 24, 1943 – April 28, 1968
Service recordJimmy Lee Curry, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 35
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 24, 1943
- Home of record
- Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 35
- LEONARD CARABEOLance Corporal · April 28, 1968
- RICHARD WILLIAM CARDINALISpecialist Five · April 28, 1968
- RICHARD ANTHONY CASSANOCorporal · April 28, 1968
- WILLIAM RICHARD COOKColonel · April 28, 1968
From Macon
- EDDIE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- RALPH LEON HINSONStaff Sergeant · December 17, 1965
- HAZE HOWARD IIISpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- JIMMY ALVIN JOHNSONSergeant · September 23, 1966
- WAYNE THAD STRICKLANDCorporal · September 24, 1966
- WILLIAM SHERWOOD COCHRANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- RALLS HAWKINSPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- SANDY LEE ROSSPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · March 9, 1967
- FRANKLIN DWIGHT RUISPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
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.