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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Jerry Mummel.

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MICHAEL JERRY MUMMEL

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 9, 1946 – July 19, 1966

Service record

Michael Jerry Mummel, of Reidsville, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 41

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
January 9, 1946
Home of record
Reidsville, North Carolina (Rockingham County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 19, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Reidsville

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.