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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Guy Allen Davison.

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GUY ALLEN DAVISON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 29, 1947 – August 25, 1968

Service record

Guy Allen Davison, of Everett, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46W · Line 13

Position of Panel 46W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 720 MP BN 89 MP GRP 18 MP BDE
Born
May 29, 1947
Home of record
Everett, Washington (Snohomish County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 25, 1968
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

76 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 46W, Line 13

From Everett

All 30 names from Everett →

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.