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HARDY EDWARD CLEVELAND
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 28, 1952 – October 30, 1971
Service recordHardy Edward Cleveland, of Paragould, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1971, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 55
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Welder (44C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 28, 1952
- Home of record
- Paragould, Arkansas (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1971
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1971; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 55
- JERRY EUGENE TEWPrivate First Class · October 29, 1971
- VICTOR DEMOTT WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · October 29, 1971
- KENNETH MICHAEL BERBLINGERChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 30, 1971
- MICHAEL MARION FARLEYSpecialist Four · October 30, 1971
Same unit, same day
- JAMES MICHAEL SELIXStaff Sergeant · Panel 2W, Line 56
From Paragould
- TIMOTHY EUGENE CLARKCorporal · December 21, 1966
- TEDDY GENE WHITTONSpecialist Five · December 6, 1967
- MOUNCE EDWARD WESTPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
- RANDALL LLOYD HARVEYSergeant First Class · March 8, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD COOKSpecialist Four · October 21, 1969
- DENNIS WILLARD HUFFINESergeant · July 14, 1970
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.