Rank: Sergeant
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11C – Indirect Fire Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 4-Mar-1950
Hometown: Gideon, Missouri
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 5-Nov-1969
Start of tour: 25-Oct-1970
Incident date: 18-Nov-1970
Date of casualty: 18-Nov-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Vehicle Crash (MC). Vehicle loss or crash.
Donnie Lee Cunningham was killed while the commander of a military vehicle on a military mission when the vehicle went off the road and overturned. / Track commander on mortar carrier. Vehicle went off road and turned over.
Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam, YU 185 145
Place of interment: Stanfield Cemetery, Clarkton, Missouri, USA
View this soldier‘s Find a Grave page (opens in a new window)