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CURTIS ROY CLINE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 29, 1949 – September 18, 1969
Service recordCurtis Roy Cline, of Burlington, Michigan, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on September 18, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 108
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Burlington, Michigan (Calhoun County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 18, 1969
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Presumed Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 18W, Line 108
- THOMAS EVERETT YOUNGPrivate First Class · September 17, 1969
- SCOTTY GENE AUSTINSpecialist Four · September 18, 1969
- WALLACE SPERGON CARTERSpecialist Four · September 18, 1969
- PAUL JAMES KNEELANDSergeant · September 18, 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.