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GEORGE C DAVENPORT JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 4, 1948 – October 4, 1969
Service recordGeorge C Davenport JR, of Thomasville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 4, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 36
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 70 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- October 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Thomasville, North Carolina (Davidson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 4, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date October 4, 1969; three of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 70 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 36
- STEVE DWAYNE CARTERLance Corporal · October 4, 1969
- THOMAS HENRY CHURCHILLSergeant First Class · October 4, 1969
- WAYNE ROBERT ELKINSPrivate First Class · October 4, 1969
- RONALD PETER HUFFMANPrivate First Class · October 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE ROBERT ELKINSPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 36
- WILLIAM F MCLAUGHLINPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 38
From Thomasville
- VANN DWAIN SHERRILLChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 23, 1965
- WAYNE VASTER WILSONStaff Sergeant · July 2, 1967
- SAMUEL LUTHER DAVISStaff Sergeant · April 6, 1968
- ROBERT LOVESpecialist Four · January 11, 1969
- ROBERT JOSEPH TURNERSergeant · February 13, 1969
- GARY REID CLODFELTERSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- JOHN B GAINGERSpecialist Four · July 25, 1969
- CLARK FRANKLIN ROGERSSpecialist Four · June 8, 1970
- CLYDE LEWIS TENSLEYSpecialist Four · July 30, 1970
- DAVID LEE NORRISPrivate First Class · December 12, 1970
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.