The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leonard Douglas Davis.

The Wall › Panel 9E › Arizona › Leonard Douglas Davis

LEONARD DOUGLAS DAVIS

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 16, 1943 – August 2, 1966

Service record

Leonard Douglas Davis, of Bisbee, Arizona, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 2, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 96

Position of Panel 9E 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.

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 16, 1943
Home of record
Bisbee, Arizona (Cochise County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 2, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date August 2, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 96

Same unit, same day

From Bisbee

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.