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PAUL JOSEPH CUMMINGS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 5, 1949 – October 13, 1968
Service recordPaul Joseph Cummings JR, of Doctors Inlet, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 13, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 57
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Petroleum Supply Specialist (76W)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Doctors Inlet, Florida (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1968; seven of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 57
- BRYAN MICHAEL CHILCOTEPrivate First Class · October 13, 1968
- AL DOUGLAS CORBOLance Corporal · October 13, 1968
- WILLIAM LENORD DRUSCHELPrivate First Class · October 13, 1968
- JUAN CHAIRES DURAN JRPrivate First Class · October 13, 1968
From Doctors Inlet
- RALPH NORTH BRIGHTCorporal · April 21, 1970
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.