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JOSEPH HENRY INGRUM
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
December 12, 1946 – May 12, 1968
Service recordJoseph Henry Ingrum, of Abilene, Kansas, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 5
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- December 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Abilene, Kansas (Dickinson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 5
- JOE JOHN JANAKPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- STEVEN ANDREW JARRETTFirst Lieutenant · May 12, 1968
- DENNIS KEITH JONESSpecialist Four · May 12, 1968
- MICHAEL BRUCE JONESPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
From Abilene
- WILLIAM EARL RAGERSergeant First Class · March 10, 1967
- JOHN HERBERT GFELLERPlatoon Sergeant · February 19, 1968
- JACK EUGENE HOLMESSpecialist Five · December 27, 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.