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LINWOOD RAY CUMBO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 4, 1948 – February 7, 1969
Service recordLinwood Ray Cumbo, of Jackson, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1969, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 80
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Jackson, North Carolina (Northampton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1969; two of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 33W, Line 80
- DONALD KENT MCLEANSergeant · February 7, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER MITCHELLPrivate First Class · February 7, 1969
- MICHAEL LYNN MITCHELLSpecialist Four · February 7, 1969
- RUSSELL EUGENE MOKEFirst Lieutenant · February 7, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT MALCUM DAVENPORTSergeant · Panel 33W, Line 77
- JAMES ROBERT SMITHCorporal · Panel 33W, Line 82
From Jackson
- WILLIE LEE BROADNAXPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
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.