22 Mar 2001 Private First Class Curtis Brockington gave it all on that fateful day of 3 July l966. PFC Brockington was killed in action in the Ia Drang Valley (Pleiku Province). He will never be forgotten. From a fellow soldier and member of Co B, 1/35th Inf, Alonzo Jones 467 Oak Hill Lane, Huntsville, Tn jones25_1cav@highland.net

 

07 Nov 2006 I never knew my Uncle Curtis, but I am very proud that he served his country and gave his all. My dad, who was in the 82nd Airborne during Vietnam told me stories and he too is proud of him. I wish I could have known him because he seemed like a wonderful person. From his nephew, Okema Brockington flowing51@aol.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall In June 1966 the 1st Bn, 35th Infantry was working in the vicinity of the Duc Co airfield, at the northern end of the Ia Drang Valley and very close to the RVN/Cambodian border. On 24 June the battalion lost 15 men to an ambush about 15 kilometers to the south of Duc Co, and twenty more were killed when Bravo 1/35 engaged an NVA force while working along Route 569 about 6 km south of Duc Co. The men killed on 03 July were PFC Curtis Brockington, Harbor City, CA, medic PFC Christopher E. Brooks, Kings Mountain, NC PFC Tommie J. Campbell, Anderson, IN SP4 Robert P. Catling, Woodbury, NJ PFC Daniel L. Fields, Wheat Ridge, CO PFC Eurey L. Hatchett, Indianapolis, IN SP4 Haze Howard, Macon, GA, medic SGT Joe E. Johnson, Tuscumbia, AL SSG Herbert Lapp, Hebron, ND SP4 William E. Lewis, Wiseman, AR PFC Booker T. McCoy, Orlando, FL PFC Raymond L. McGarvey, Transfer, PA SGT Charles L. Moore, New York, NY PFC Robert J. Morris, Oakford, PA SGT Harold B. Reed, Washington, DC PFC Kenneth L. Schaefer, Beaver Dam, WI SSG Gilberto Soto-Garcia, San Juan, PR SGT David R. Stone, Pamplico, SC 2LT Jasper D. Sturdivant, Lake View Terrace, CA (Dist Svc Cross) SGT Bernard G. Walinski, Baltimore, MD Remembered by his fellow soldiers of the 35th Infantry - the Cacti Regiment Visit John Dennison's Medics on the Wall memorial which honors the Army Medics and Navy Corpsmen who died in Vietnam.

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