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ERLE FLETCHER DAVIS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 12, 1943 – October 28, 1969
Service recordErle Fletcher Davis, of Washington, District of Columbia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 127
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Washington, District of Columbia (District Of Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 127
- BILLY WAYNE DENLEYSpecialist Four · October 28, 1969
- ARTHUR FOXWORTHSergeant First Class · October 28, 1969
- CHARLES F GAMBLE JRSpecialist Four · October 28, 1969
- WALTER MURRAH GIBSONFirst Lieutenant · October 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR FOXWORTHSergeant First Class · Panel 17W, Line 127
From Washington
- HOMER CLEO MCINTYRE JRCaptain · July 28, 1964
- JAMES MARTIN CALEStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- GEZA TEGLASSergeant · October 27, 1965
- LOUIS SHERRODSergeant · November 6, 1965
- LEROY HILLPlatoon Sergeant · November 8, 1965
- CALVIN BOUKNIGHTSpecialist Five · November 16, 1965
- PAUL EDWARD HURDLEStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- THEODORE M BEAMONSpecialist Four · November 23, 1965
- HARRY RONALD HOSKINSONSpecialist Four · December 13, 1965
- WILLIE MITCHELL JRAirman First Class · December 20, 1965
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.