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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 Garry Don Davis.

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GARRY DON DAVIS

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

May 5, 1945 – September 24, 1966

Service record

Garry Don Davis, of Elizabethtown, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 24, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 6

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
May 5, 1945
Home of record
Elizabethtown, Illinois (Hardin County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 24, 1966
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1966; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 6

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.