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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Robert Davidson.

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DENNIS ROBERT DAVIDSON

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

March 2, 1943 – April 11, 1968

Service record

Dennis Robert Davidson, of Dayton, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49E · Line 20

Position of Panel 49E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
Born
March 2, 1943
Home of record
Dayton, Ohio (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1968
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 49E, Line 20

From Dayton

All 122 names from Dayton →

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.