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DONALD NORMAN CARTLAND
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 7, 1945 – September 5, 1969
Service recordDonald Norman Cartland, of Oak Park, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 5, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 37
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- February 7, 1945
- Home of record
- Oak Park, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1969; 17 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 37
- JERRY BRYANTSergeant · September 5, 1969
- BARRY ROBERT CLARKCorporal · September 5, 1969
- LOUIS SCOTT DIBARISpecialist Five · September 5, 1969
- CHARLES RICHARD GEIGERSpecialist Four · September 5, 1969
- LEE RICHARD SCHAAFSpecialist Four · September 5, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DWIGHT FABIAN BABELPrivate First Class · Panel 18W, Line 36
- CHARLES LOUIS HARRISStaff Sergeant · Panel 18W, Line 38
- GARY WILLIAM LAHNACorporal · Panel 18W, Line 40
- HARRY W PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 18W, Line 42
- RAYMOND BRUCE THOMASCorporal · Panel 18W, Line 44
From Oak Park
- NEIL A KROGERSecond Lieutenant · November 15, 1965
- WILLIAM GRANT DAILEY JRLance Corporal · April 29, 1967
- HAROLD SEAN TURSKEYCorporal · August 7, 1967
- RANDALL BRUCE ANDERSONPrivate First Class · January 19, 1968
- PAUL JOSEPH BONETTICorporal · June 13, 1968
- ROBERT DENNIS MARTINPrivate First Class · January 7, 1969
- JOSEPH PAUL NOLAN JRCaptain · May 16, 1971
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.