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RICHARD LOWELL CURD
Corporal · U.S. Army
April 13, 1947 – August 17, 1967
Service recordRichard Lowell Curd, of Rainelle, West Virginia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 17, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 6
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Rainelle, West Virginia (Greenbrier County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 17, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 6
- WENDELL LEWIS DAYSergeant · August 17, 1967
- LAURENT NORBERT DIONCommander · August 17, 1967
- DON R HARGERWarrant Officer 1 · August 17, 1967
- THOMAS ALEXANDER HARPPrivate First Class · August 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JON ROY HONRATHPrivate First Class · Panel 25E, Line 7
From Rainelle
- RONALD LEE BERRYPrivate First Class · August 10, 1969
- DONALD GENE LANHAMLance Corporal · August 19, 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.