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JOHNNY JACOB CURETON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 1, 1948 – August 11, 1969
Service recordJohnny Jacob Cureton JR, of Williamston, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 11, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 1
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
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C BTRY 1 BN 44 ARTY I FF
- Born
- September 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Williamston, South Carolina (Anderson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date August 11, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C BTRY 1 BN 44 ARTY I FF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 1
- BILLY GENE CHAPMANSpecialist Four · August 11, 1969
- CHARLES RICKY COPECorporal · August 11, 1969
- LAWRENCE KENT DOWDLance Corporal · August 11, 1969
- DAVID MICHAEL FREEMANPrivate First Class · August 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN CHARLES SIMS JRCorporal · Panel 19W, Line 5
From Williamston
- MELVIN CALVIN MAULDIN JRCorporal · October 12, 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.