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Pvt Curtis L. Nabors was a motor vehicle mechanic and repairman before he enlisted at Camp Shelby, Mississippi on 5 September 1944.

He was part of a diversionary raid launched to trick the Germans into thinking that a massive attack was planned south of the hamlet of Hartungshof. While Nabors and his fellow soldiers withstood a barrage of machine gun fire from what looked like ordinary farm buildings, another regiment marched into the west part of the hamlet, nearer to the Siegfried Line, with little resistance. The mission was a success, but the casualties were heavy: 27 wounded, 17 killed and six missing.

He is also remembered at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia.

In 1974, while laying a new water pipe, a German construction crew discovered some human remains and Nabors's dog tag, but did not report their findings. In 1980, a retired U.S. Army Major living in Germany learned of the dog tags and notified the Nabors family. The U.S. Army Central Indentification Laboratory in Hawaii verified the remains of all three soldiers. Pvt Nabors was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on 25 August 1982.