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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Aubrey Guy Davis.

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AUBREY GUY DAVIS

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 25, 1945 – January 27, 1969

Service record

Aubrey Guy Davis, of Gleason, Tennessee, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 27, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 92

Position of Panel 34W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
April 25, 1945
Home of record
Gleason, Tennessee (Weakley County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 27, 1969
Age
23
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1969; five of them were lost in Long An Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 92

Same unit, same day

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.