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Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970.
Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert Jackson Davis.

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ALBERT JACKSON DAVIS

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

September 13, 1946 – January 17, 1969

Service record

Albert Jackson Davis, of Fallbrook, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on January 17, 1969, in Laos, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 22

Position of Panel 34W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
7 AF
Born
September 13, 1946
Home of record
Fallbrook, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 17, 1969
Age
22
Country
Laos
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1969. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “7 AF”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 22

Same unit, same day

From Fallbrook

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.