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JAMES FELIX RUMMAGE
Corporal · U.S. Army
December 23, 1948 – December 21, 1968
Service recordJames Felix Rummage, of Albemarle, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 59
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Albemarle, North Carolina (Stanly County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36W, Line 59
- EDWARD SALONIES JRPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
- EDWARD JOSEPH SCALISESergeant First Class · December 21, 1968
- ELMER GERALD SIKORSKIStaff Sergeant · December 21, 1968
- EARL WILLIAM THOMAS JRPrivate · December 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT GERDES BLANKPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 55
- LARRY ALLEN GOFFPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 56
From Albemarle
- HENRY FONZO SMITHSergeant · November 17, 1965
- WILLIAM DAVID LAMBERTPrivate First Class · December 7, 1966
- HARRY LAMAR BLALOCKPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- JERRY ARTHUR SNIPESPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES MASKESergeant · March 28, 1969
- RICHARD LEE SICKLESCorporal · May 12, 1969
- CURTIS RAY HARRISSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- EUGENE PAUL CLARKCorporal · August 12, 1969
- HAROLD PHILIP FESPERMANSergeant · February 14, 1970
- JOEL CLINTON HATLEYSpecialist Four · March 5, 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.