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JOHN SANFORD DAVENPORT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 31, 1944 – April 28, 1969
Service recordJohn Sanford Davenport, of Cashion, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- May 31, 1944
- Home of record
- Cashion, Oklahoma (Kingfisher County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 69
- HAL CUSHMAN CASTLE JRLieutenant (junior grade) · April 28, 1969
- ALBERTO GUTIERREZ CORTEZPrivate First Class · April 28, 1969
- GERALD FRANK COULTHARTSpecialist Four · April 28, 1969
- JOHN CLINTON DAVISSpecialist Four · April 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN CLINTON DAVISSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 69
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.