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DAVID LEE DAVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 29, 1950 – March 20, 1969
Service recordDavid Lee Davis, of Waterloo, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 20, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 87
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- January 29, 1950
- Home of record
- Waterloo, Iowa (Black Hawk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1969; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 87
- JOHN MARTIN BURKECorporal · March 20, 1969
- VAUGHN DAVID CONNELLWarrant Officer 1 · March 20, 1969
- RICARDO GONZALEZ DAVISSergeant First Class · March 20, 1969
- RICHARD RAY MAYNARDSergeant · March 20, 1969
From Waterloo
- WILLIAM JOSEPH BARRAGYMajor · May 4, 1966
- DAVID IRA MUSCHPrivate First Class · September 30, 1966
- DAVID HENRY PAULSENPrivate First Class · November 12, 1966
- RUSSELL LOUIS HALLEYPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JEFFERY THOMAS DINESPrivate · January 13, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD GREENSergeant · March 30, 1967
- RONALD MARVIN STEINCorporal · May 9, 1967
- ROBERT WILBUR DEYO JRPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- MERLE KEITH FAGERLIND JRCorporal · December 4, 1967
- LORENCE MARION LUNDBYSpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
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.