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DONALD GENE CLEAVER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
July 30, 1931 – October 3, 1968
Service recordDonald Gene Cleaver, of Joplin, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on October 3, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 69
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 AF
- Born
- July 30, 1931
- Home of record
- Joplin, Missouri (Jasper County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 3, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date October 3, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 AF”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 69
- RALPH TAYLOR HIGDONChief Warrant Officer 3 · October 3, 1968
- RONALD DAVID HORNStaff Sergeant · October 3, 1968
- THOMAS EUGENE JOHNSONChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 3, 1968
- GREGORY THOMAS JONESSergeant · October 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES KENNETH CONNORStaff Sergeant · Panel 42W, Line 67
From Joplin
- WILLIAM JAMES JOHNSONSpecialist Five · October 21, 1965
- LAWRENCE MCCREAPrivate First Class · April 5, 1966
- VIRGIL MADISON LEDFORDSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- HAROLD LEROY CARVERPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- MONTY RAE SEWELLLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
- CHARLES BRENT HORTONLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- JIMMY DALE HATFIELDPrivate First Class · September 26, 1967
- ROBERT JACK RUHL JRCorporal · February 12, 1968
- JOE RAY WHITTEDSergeant · May 15, 1968
- LARRY DEAN PLILERSergeant · May 31, 1968
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.