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JAMES LEE DAVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 9, 1950 – July 6, 1969
Service recordJames Lee Davis, of Harlem, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 6, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 69
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
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- June 9, 1950
- Home of record
- Harlem, Georgia (Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 6, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 69
- DAVID EUGENE BUTTRYPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
- RONALD WILLIAM CARDONAStaff Sergeant · July 6, 1969
- THOMAS RUSSELL COLLINS JRSpecialist Four · July 6, 1969
- RODNEY JEROME DELISLEPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
From Harlem
- ROGERS PULLINS JRPrivate First Class · April 4, 1969
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.