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HAROLD FRANKLIN KLINE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 18, 1934 – August 24, 1968
Service recordHarold Franklin Kline, of Frederick, Maryland, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 4
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 18, 1934
- Home of record
- Frederick, Maryland (Frederick County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quang Duc Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46W, Line 4
- NELSON JEFFERSON JRSergeant First Class · August 24, 1968
- KURT KARL JOBST JRSpecialist Four · August 24, 1968
- GARY BREWSTER KILGORESpecialist Four · August 24, 1968
- LEWIS KINGSpecialist Four · August 24, 1968
From Frederick
- ROBERT EARL SMITH JRHospitalman · May 15, 1966
- DANIEL SPENSER BRITTAINSecond Lieutenant · May 30, 1966
- WILSON LEE COOKSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- GARY WAYNE COSGRAVEAirman Second Class · May 12, 1967
- CHARLES FRANK BRANDENBURGPrivate First Class · August 5, 1967
- JOHN FRANCIS PLUNKARDSergeant · April 8, 1968
- WILLIAM E ZIMMERMAN JRFirst Lieutenant · April 28, 1968
- MICHAEL LEON BREWERSpecialist Five · May 9, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM GRASERSpecialist Four · May 27, 1968
- STEPHEN EUGENE SROKAPrivate First Class · August 3, 1969
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.