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GIOVANNINO TUMMINIA
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 24, 1928 – March 30, 1966
Service recordGiovannino Tumminia, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 24, 1928
- Home of record
- Pascagoula, Mississippi (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1966
- Age
- 37
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 69
- HENRY LEE WHALEYCorporal · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES M WOODSPrivate First Class · March 30, 1966
- HOWARD OLIVER WRIGHT JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- LLOYD ROBERT TARVERSpecialist Five · March 31, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DAVID L ARNOLDPrivate First Class · Panel 6E, Line 62
- ARTHUR LEROY JAMESStaff Sergeant · Panel 6E, Line 65
From Pascagoula
- EUGENE JEHLEN MAJUREFirst Lieutenant · August 18, 1966
- GEORGE CURTIS SIGALASLance Corporal · December 22, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN BURTONSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- HERMAN PAUL MAGEEPrivate First Class · July 22, 1968
- THOMAS DOUGLAS HARDYPrivate · October 22, 1968
- GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARDPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- JOHN ELMORE WELLSSergeant · June 4, 1970
- HOWARD OTTO WARBINGTONStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
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.