Donald Leo Cline

Company D 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 04/05/69

 

 

Age: 19
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Feb 25, 1950
From: HUNTSVILLE, AL
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single

SGT - E5 - Army - Regular
Grade at loss: E4
Rank: Sergeant
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B20: Infantryman
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Oct 3, 1968
Casualty was on Apr 5, 1969
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

Panel 27W - Line 15

 

 

Donald Cline was killed in action while on Operation Wayne Grey, during an assault on NVA positions
near LZ Cider in the Plei Trap Valley, at grid reference YA811797, approximately 27 kilometers north of
Plei Djereng airfield.

 

 

 

 

SGT Donald L. Cline's decorations

 

 

 

 

 

Donald Leo Cline from the 1969 1st Battalion yearbook

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birth: Feb. 25, 1950
Limestone County
Alabama, USA

Death: Apr. 5, 1969
Kontum Province, Vietnam

Burial:
Crestwood Memorial Cemetery
East Gadsden
Etowah County
Alabama, USA

 

Grave marker for Donald L. Cline

 

Photo by Head Hunter from the Find A Grave website

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To visit a tribute to Donald Leo Cline click on the following link: Together We Served

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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