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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Bruce Kline.

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DAVID BRUCE KLINE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 31, 1948 – July 2, 1967

Service record

David Bruce Kline, of Hurdsfield, North Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 107

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
July 31, 1948
Home of record
Hurdsfield, North Dakota (Wells County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 2, 1967
Age
18
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 107

Same unit, same day

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.