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DONALD KIRBY CHEEK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 22, 1948 – December 8, 1968
Service recordDonald Kirby Cheek, of Robbins, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 62
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Robbins, North Carolina (Moore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37W, Line 62
- ALFRED PATRICK CLAYTONStaff Sergeant · December 8, 1968
- PAUL LELAND DAINSPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
- CARROLL EDWARD DERRILLPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
- DOUGLAS DUPREESergeant · December 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT PRESTON ENGLISHCorporal · Panel 37W, Line 63
- DOUGLAS DALE ESTESSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 63
From Robbins
- DONNIE WAYNE BROWNLance Corporal · September 20, 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.