Rank: Private First Class
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 31-Mar-1950
Hometown: Dayton, Virginia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 20-Jan-1970
Start of tour: 5-Jul-1970
Incident date: 28-Jul-1970
Date of casualty: 28-Jul-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of illness/injury. Other Accident. Other accident.
Dickie Carson Curry was killed while a passenger on a military vehicle on a military mission when the weapon of another vehicle was accidentally discharged striking his vehicle. / Crewman on a tank moving out of night defensive position (NDP). Another tank accidentally fired main gun hitting individuals tank and one other.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 George Fredrick Beeler
1LT Robert Norris Chinquina
PFC Dickie Carson Curry
PFC Timothy Allen White
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 220 094
Place of interment: Briery Branch Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Dayton, Virginia, USA
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