The Wall › Panel 60E › Connecticut › Edwin Phillip Davis
EDWIN PHILLIP DAVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 17, 1948 – May 14, 1968
Service recordEdwin Phillip Davis, of Rockville, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1968, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 10
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Rockville, Connecticut (Tolland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1968; three of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 10
- MICHAEL FRANCIS DALTONPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- JOSE RAMON DIANA-DIAZPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- JOHN DINAPOLI JRFirst Lieutenant · May 14, 1968
- RICHARD LEE GILBERTSergeant · May 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD ANDERSONCorporal · Panel 60E, Line 7
- THOMAS A BARRETTSpecialist Four · Panel 60E, Line 8
- LEE FRANCIS JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 12
From Rockville
- EDWARD LOUIS OTT IIIPetty Officer First Class · September 1, 1967
- STEVEN GEORGE SLACKPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- DONALD CHESTER LEBLONDStaff Sergeant · February 26, 1969
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.