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MARCUS EUGENE CLINE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
January 4, 1947 – June 24, 1968
Service recordMarcus Eugene Cline, of Caddo, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 24, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 28
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- January 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Caddo, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 24, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 28
- KENNETH WALTER HALLLieutenant Colonel · June 24, 1968
- RAYMOND R HITCHCOCK JRSergeant · June 24, 1968
- ERNEST MAEHUE HODGESSpecialist Four · June 24, 1968
- JERALD LOUIS JONESSpecialist Four · June 24, 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.