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GLENN EDWIN DAVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 15, 1947 – May 5, 1968
Service recordGlenn Edwin Davis, of Cahokia, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 5, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 8
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
- Born
- May 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Cahokia, Illinois (St Clair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; 36 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 8
- JOHN RAYMOND CROUSESpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- WILHELM KARL DAMMERStaff Sergeant · May 5, 1968
- THOMAS NELSON DEANPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- CHARLES KENNETH DEEREPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
From Cahokia
- CARL DWAYNE BUCKLEYPrivate First Class · April 11, 1966
- JAMES WALTER ARMSCorporal · October 8, 1967
- JOSEPH SCOTT BURGETTSecond Lieutenant · February 5, 1968
- DONALD GENE HEDGECOCKSpecialist Four · November 6, 1969
- HAROLD EUGENE COWANCorporal · June 23, 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.