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JAMES THOMAS CUMMINGS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 16, 1945 – March 30, 1968
Service recordJames Thomas Cummings JR, of Elmhurst, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 16, 1945
- Home of record
- Elmhurst, Illinois (Du Page County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; four of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 10
- CHARLES HENRY DYCHESPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
- THOMAS BERNARD FERGUSONSecond Lieutenant · March 30, 1968
- PETER JOSEPH GALLOFirst Lieutenant · March 30, 1968
- EDWARD LEE GLOVERPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
From Elmhurst
- JACK ARTHUR SCHNEIDERPrivate First Class · June 4, 1966
- THOMAS JEROME LESTONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- STEVE JOHN CHURCHILLPrivate · May 18, 1967
- LARRY RAY PALMERLance Corporal · September 10, 1967
- JOHN HENRY CURTINFirst Lieutenant · January 2, 1968
- DAVID RONALD BURKES JRCorporal · June 28, 1968
- LAWRENCE CARROLL ROSEStaff Sergeant · September 2, 1968
- STEVEN ROBERT MAJORFirst Lieutenant · September 21, 1968
- KENNETH ERWIN STEINHEBELCorporal · February 23, 1969
- DAVID EDWARD SCHULZEPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
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.