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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clifton Anthony Davis.

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CLIFTON ANTHONY DAVIS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 19, 1948 – September 21, 1968

Service record

Clifton Anthony Davis, of Farmerville, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 21, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 43W · Line 53

Position of Panel 43W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 70 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
August 19, 1948
Home of record
Farmerville, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
September 21, 1968
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1968; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “A CO 70 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 43W, Line 53

Same unit, same day

From Farmerville

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.