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CHARLES LAVERN LUMM
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 7, 1948 – September 13, 1968
Service recordCharles Lavern Lumm, of New Berlin, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 50
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 498 MED CO USARV
- Born
- May 7, 1948
- Home of record
- New Berlin, New York (Chenango County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “498 MED CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 50
- RAYMOND EDWARD LANTERSpecialist Four · September 13, 1968
- GARY LEE LEWISPrivate · September 13, 1968
- MELVIN RAY LONGPrivate First Class · September 13, 1968
- DAVID ALLAN MAHANSergeant · September 13, 1968
From New Berlin
- GARY LEE RUSSELLPrivate First Class · June 3, 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.