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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 Booker T Davie JR.

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BOOKER T DAVIE JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 5, 1942 – February 8, 1970

Service record

Booker T Davie JR, of Union Springs, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 115

Position of Panel 14W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Born
January 5, 1942
Home of record
Union Springs, Alabama (Bullock County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 8, 1970
Age
28
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1970. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 115

From Union Springs

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.