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RICHARD LEROY CUMMINS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
February 26, 1946 – October 10, 1969
Service recordRichard Leroy Cummins, of Kimball, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 10, 1969, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 61
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Microwave Systems Repairer (26L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- February 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Kimball, South Dakota (Brule County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 10, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1969; seven of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 61
- WILLIAM EDWARD FINCHAMSpecialist Four · October 10, 1969
- WILLIAM ROLLAND GODFREYSergeant · October 10, 1969
- DANNY ROBERT HESSONLance Corporal · October 10, 1969
- FRANKLIN LEE WEISNERMajor · October 10, 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.