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CHARLES OWEN DAVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 9, 1944 – May 8, 1966
Service recordCharles Owen Davis, of Louisburg, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 41
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 9, 1944
- Home of record
- Louisburg, North Carolina (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 41
- JESUS LOPEZ RAMOS JRSergeant · May 7, 1966
- EDWARD LEE ROARKPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
- STEPHEN JOSEPH STERITIPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- JOHN JOSEPH TUMINOSpecialist Four · May 8, 1966
- JOHN BACOSpecialist Four · May 9, 1966
Same unit, same day
- GILBERT BYRON BUSHSecond Lieutenant · Panel 7E, Line 39
- JOHN JOSEPH TUMINOSpecialist Four · Panel 7E, Line 41
From Louisburg
- WILLIAM CLIFTON SHEARINPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
- PAUL LOUIS JOYNERCorporal · June 16, 1968
- JAMES LEE BOWDENCorporal · August 21, 1968
- JOHN WILLIE THOMASSergeant · February 22, 1969
- PHILLIP CORNELIUS BLACKMONDSpecialist Four · May 16, 1971
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.