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RONALD CLEVELAND
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 16, 1947 – March 30, 1971
Service recordRonald Cleveland, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1971, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 94
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
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- April 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1971
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1971; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 94
- AMADO ALANIZ JRLance Corporal · March 30, 1971
- TERRY LEE BOSWORTHCorporal · March 30, 1971
- DEWITT WILCOX BROWN IIIFirst Lieutenant · March 30, 1971
- DAVID FRANK NIDEVERMajor · March 30, 1971
Same unit, same day
- GARY LYNN PACEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 4W, Line 95
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.