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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold Warren Cummings JR.

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HAROLD WARREN CUMMINGS JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 21, 1941 – December 4, 1967

Service record

Harold Warren Cummings JR, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 33

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
669 TRANS CO 1 LOG CMD
Born
February 21, 1941
Home of record
Dorchester, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 4, 1967
Age
26
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 33

From Dorchester

All 40 names from Dorchester →

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.