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MELVIN DARRYL RUMSEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 11, 1950 – November 20, 1968
Service recordMelvin Darryl Rumsey, of Marietta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 20
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 11, 1950
- Home of record
- Marietta, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 20
- JOHN FREDRICK PRISETLance Corporal · November 20, 1968
- MICHAEL DEAN REIFFSergeant · November 20, 1968
- BENNY JAMES SAPPPrivate First Class · November 20, 1968
- WILLIAM PROSPER SMITH JRPrivate First Class · November 20, 1968
From Marietta
- WILLIAM BAYLES CAWTHORNESecond Lieutenant · June 30, 1964
- ROY LEE CASTLEBERRYPetty Officer Second Class · May 24, 1967
- JOEL CLYDE ROPERPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY MCCOLLUMPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- JOHNNY JUERGEN JUNKINSCorporal · March 8, 1968
- WILLIE EDWARD GLOVERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- PATRICK HENRY COOK JRSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE HERRENCorporal · May 27, 1968
- KIRBY LYNN HAMBYSpecialist Four · June 8, 1968
- EUGENE RICHARDSON IIILance Corporal · June 21, 1968
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.